Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...bound to share the blame in Asia for his increasing transgressions against democratic processes. Whether State planned it that way or not, the public protest echoed far beyond Korea as a signal that the U.S. intends to speak up to errant friends as well as enemies when their conduct-even though internal-offends the basic principles for which the U.S. stands...
...religious issue a legitimate issue in this campaign?" he asked rhetorically. "There is only one legitimate question underlying all the rest: Would you. as President, be responsive in any way to ecclesiastical pressures or obligations of any kind that might in any fashion influence or interfere with your conduct of that office in the national interest? I have answered that question many times. My answer was-and is-no." He is opposed to federal assistance for parochial schools ("clearly unconstitutional"), opposed to sending an ambassador to the Vatican ("It was last proposed by a Baptist President"), and if confronted with...
...five-year-old Facility at Vacaville, a prison and mental hospital rolled into one, is virtually unique in the U.S.* Reason for its existence is the view, slowly spreading in the U.S. since the 1920s, that underlying most criminal conduct is emotional disturbance or outright mental illness. Carried to its logical extreme, this would mean abolishing prisons and putting all convicted criminals under psychiatric treatment. Society is far from ready for anything so visionary, and neither is organized psychiatry. As Kansas' famed Dr. Karl (Man Against Himself) Menninger puts it: "The sinners whose sins are inexplicable to laymen...
Having lived in the South all my life-Georgia, Florida and Louisiana-I, like most true Southerners, deplore such conduct as depicted by John Griffin [March 28]. Over the years I have had a great deal of contact with Negroes in various business relations from laborers to managers and I have never seen them treated so inconsiderately or disrespectfully. The present explosive conditions existing in the" South are not normal, and the pity of it is that our friends in the rest of the country who seek understanding of the problem are denied the benefit of our views...
...court's unusual policing of police-court proceedings flashed a warning that convictions for loitering and disorderly conduct, often based on flimsy evidence or none at all, might now be toppled wholesale. But for Sam Thompson, who enjoyed a victory countless drunks have only dreamed of, the decision didn't mean much. When it was handed down, he was back in Jefferson County jail in Louisville, serving a six-month term on four other misdemeanor charges...