Word: commit
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Extra-curricular Life. Oxford does not suffer greatly from professionalism in extra-curricular activities. Orchestras and theatrical groups come and go in lively fashion; faculty control a la Loeb would be unthinkable. Undergraduates are less apt than they are here to commit themselves to a single organization...
Died. Samuel Dashiell Hammett, 66, seclusive insomniac whose tours-de-corpse (Red Harvest, The Maltese Falcon) revolutionized detective fiction by taking murder out of the hands of English butlers and giving it back to the people who usually commit it; of chronic lung disease; in New York City. A onetime Pinkerton agent who hung on to his job only because of the literary quality of his reports, Hammett contracted TB while an ambulance driver during World War I and, while convalescing, perfected a bone-clean prose style perfectly suited to a brutal world of crime in which private cops were...
...economic policy. Appearing before the Senate Finance Committee for hearings on his confirmation, Dillon said that he expects the budget deficit because of a decrease in tax revenues, "particularly in the area of corporate profits." He also gave his views on several economic problems, on others skillfully declined to commit himself before the Kennedy Administration's policies are more firmly fixed. Items...
When Kennedy comes into office the NATO powers will still be studying the proposal, which is just as well. The U.S. ought not to commit itself to supplying the alliance with a strategic force or even (since it is hard to say where the strategic leaves off and the tactical starts) with nuclear warheads, before it can answer a number of fundamental questions about deterrence. Is a non-nuclear war in the area possible? Nobody has a certain answer, but the most likely is No, it is not. And the argument that to give SHAPE as well...
Chain of Command. As Felt maneuvers his fire brigade in support of these difficult and divergent outposts on his frontier, he is in close touch with Washington, which must decide at all times how far he should commit his forces (unlike NATO membership, where an attack on one is automatically an attack on all, SEATO asks for a U.S. response under "its constitutional processes"). Felt's forces report to three commands whose headquarters are in Honolulu: ¶ PACAF (Pacific Air Forces), bossed by able, flamboyant old SACman General Emmett O'Donnell Jr., organizes its 650 combat planes into...