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Hoadley's modus operandi, distasteful in itself, has already had its unhappy effects. None of the three defendants will return to school this term. Their parents have suffered economic reprisals and one friends was evicted from an apartment...
...dollars spent on national radio and television ratings, knew it was the committee's prime target, and its executives came to the hearings armed with a vanload of statistical charts. But the committeemen were not to be diverted by the long-winded, jargonized explanations of the Nielsen modus operandi. "You gentlemen amuse me," California Republican J. Arthur Younger told the Nielsen men. "I have never yet seen anything that sells confusion before like you people...
...Agriculture Minister, quickly scored with consumers by persuading butchers to knock down meat prices. The generals reaffirmed their intention to hold a simon-pure election next June. There were even stories that APRA, with which the generals have been feuding for three decades, had agreed to a modus vivendi: APRA would be allowed to continue as a party so long as it attempted no outright subversion. To every hat-in-hand delegation of businessmen, politicians and labor leaders that visited the palace, Perez Godoy pleaded for "time, peace and help...
...Cardinal Wyszynski, 60. Making his first Vatican visit in three years for the ostensible purpose of helping to prepare for next fall's Ecumenical Council, the tough-minded Primate obviously had another mission as well: to brief Pope John XXIII on the Polish Church's increasingly uneasy modus vivendi with its Communist Caesars...
...proposing a change in U.S. policy. After all the talk of a new Berlin agreement, the U.S. seemed, in effect, ready to settle for the status quo-including the Wall. In exchange, the U.S. expected Nikita Khrushchev to relax some of his pressure on Berlin, agree informally to a modus vivendi that would leave Western rights in the city undisturbed...