Word: functional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Surprise. Few were surprised, and only Communists were angered, by Mr. King's announcement. Actually, U.S. and Canadian military men have been working together all along. Since war's end the armed forces of both nations have been experimenting to see how machines would function and how men could live and fight in the Arctic. The Canadian Army's "Musk-Ox" expedition (TIME, Feb. 25, 1946), on which U.S. observers went along, was one test. So was the U.S. "Operation Frostbite"-the northern trip of the aircraft carrier Midway, which carried a Canadian observer. The U.S.Army...
...done, Roy Roberts lies abed reading far into the night. He gets through a book or two a week, half a dozen magazines (including the New Republic and the Nation, "to see what the nuts are up to"). Now that he has the title as well as the function of head man, he will still give his audience in public, out in the open in the newsroom. "If I couldn't see people and hear what was going on," he says, "I'd be unable to work. I'd get fidgety...
...juxtaposition, there is every conceivable type of architecture, from a smattering of colonial through 19th Century brick churches to curvaceous, glass-walled, ten-story skyscrapers-most of it in muscular bad taste. But the most characteristic structure in Medellin is a half-finished factory. Some 250 large factories already function in Medellin and the adjacent towns of Itagui, Bello, Envigado and Copacabana, but industrialization goes on. The municipal power system provides the cheapest electricity in South America, and is stepping up the supply with a second huge hydro development. The well-paved streets contrast sharply with Bogota's slovenliness...
...Four days after installation of the ''foolproof" traffic control system was proudly announced to the press last winter, it failed to function, sent a freight head-on into a passenger train, killing a fireman. The Rio Grande has had no other fatality since McCarthy took over...
...bitterest pill is the fact that not six months ago, London refused large scale immigration into Palestine "because of the large British army that would be required there to keep peace." Yet today, there is a British army of well over 100,000 in the Holy Land whose apparent function is to wipe out the Jewish underground. If the British could succeed in this venture. Palestine would house a permanent Jewish minority. Naturally, the Arab League, even if cut off in Palestine, would make its weight felt throughout the other British interests in the Middle East. After five years...