Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Teheran newspaper recently explained to its readers. "Constitutionally. he can appoint or dismiss a Premier as he sees fit. He can also dissolve parliament if he so chooses. He decides on which projects his country needs, bills that should be presented for passage by the legislature, and on the conduct generally of home and foreign policy...
Departing Sydney for Calcutta, Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand's cliff-hanger extraordinary, labeled his upcoming nine-month expedition "the most important of its kind ever to go to the Himalayas." Its prime purpose: to conduct physiological tests atop the world's fifth-highest peak, Mount Makalu, which the party of 18 hopes to mount without oxygen tanks. But getting most of the headlines so far was an expedition sideline: Hillary's quest for the Abominable Snowman. Although he suspects that the abomination is just a snow job, Hillary is toting a special, hypodermic-firing blunderbuss with...
...piano prodigy, had her first public concert at the age of eight. One day five years ago, some friends asked her to play at a recording session for a short-lived musical called The Amazing Adele. ''There was a 14-piece orchestra and no one to conduct it. I suddenly found myself playing the piano and conducting the orchestra, and I loved it." For the next year she studied under Vladimir Brailowsky, then made the rounds of the summer tent musicals, absorbing both the inevitable gags ("Gee," cracked one cigar-puffing cellist, "you're the first longhair...
...issue of your fine magazine you discussed the unusual malady of "imaginary poverty," wherein wealthy individuals imagine themselves to be impoverished and conduct their personal spending accordingly...
...State Department quickly announced that it saw "nothing in his conduct to warrant prosecution," and President Eisenhower publicly "regretted the severity of the sentence...