Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Professors from American Universities conduct discussions at the Seminar, thus assuring the participating students of top-level information on the United States and its culture...
...compete with radio's fast-breaking, flexible news coverage. Except for its dramatic United Nations telecasts, TV has contented itself with scooping the newsreel theaters. In addition to Tele-News newsreel clips, CBS-TV supplies a pointer and a relief map of Korea so that Douglas Edwards can conduct televiewers on a nightly Cook's tour of the battlefront. John Cameron Swayze on NBC-TV's Camel News Caravan explains battle positions on his map with the aid of animated planes, tanks and troops...
...state film censor, was fretting because televised wrestling is "devaluating all the concepts of fair play, obedience to laws, and respect for ordinary, universally accepted ways of behaving." What upset Dr. Hissong was not so much the recent introduction on TV of women wrestlers and midget wrestlers as the conduct of referees, who "issue warnings without penalty and in such a manner that contestants and observers conclude that it pays to break the rules...
...trial-the way the jury was selected, the kind of testimony and evidence admitted. The eleven had had a proper trial; if anything, the long-suffering Judge Medina, heckled and insulted by the Reds' lawyers, had leaned over backward to be just. "If at times he did not conduct himself with the imperturbability of a Rhadamanthus [he] showed considerably greater self-control and forbearance than it is given to most judges to possess...
...getting more & more difficult. General Douglas MacArthur still refused to impose military censorship (TIME, July 24), but last week the U.S. Eighth Army in Korea threatened correspondents with "disciplinary action" if dispatches gave "aid and comfort" to the enemy. Added the directive: "Criticism of command decisions or of the conduct of Allied soldiers on the battlefield will not be tolerated...