Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...United States Senate he was defeated. This took place before the conclusion of World War II. After his initial failure- and after the war- he returned to Appleton to become a judge. A little later lawyers in the state tried unsuccessfully to have him disbarred because of his conduct on the bench...
...intention today to attempt a reevaluation of Joseph McCarthy's reputation. He was no friend of mine, and I have no disposition to make excuse for his conduct. My first months as President of Harvard were made unnecessarily difficult by the ostensible campaign of hate he was then conducting against universities in general and Harvard in particular (primarily, I am certain, not so much because he disliked or distrusted universities, but for personally profitable political reasons). As long as I remained in Appleton he had taken no public notice of me. But when I came into the light...
Died. Edwin C. Johnson, 86, three-term Democratic Governor of Colorado and U.S. Senator from 1937 to 1955; following a hernia operation; in Denver. A conservative, "Big Ed" was offended by immorality among Hollywood actors and actresses and called for a congressional investigation. "Unconventional free-love conduct must be regarded for what it is," he said, "an assault upon the institution of marriage...
Side Effects. Said Edwards: "For the first time in FDA history, manufacturers will be required to conduct long-term studies of the drug's effects." They will have to compile data on the reported effects of patients under treatment, and on the results of post-mortem examinations of those who die of Parkinson's disease. There is good reason for this caution. Nearly all patients treated with L-dopa suffer some side effects, among which loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting are considered minor. More serious are changes in blood pressure and the white-blood-cell system...
...scale, Authors MacAndrew and Edgerton cite the Urubu Indians of Brazil. When sober, the Urubus are ferocious headhunters; when drunk, they dance and sing with their enemies. The myth of alcoholic "disinhibition," as the book awkwardly describes it, can no more account for this reversal than for the inebriated conduct of the Aritama of northern Colombia. A morose and self-conscious tribe, the Aritama only grow more so on rum, their favorite potable. "All conversation stops," report the authors, "and gloominess sets...