Word: functional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite its numerous personnel and extensive facilities, Hygiene still has big problems. Like a growing boy bursting through the seat of too-tight trousers, Hygiene must get some new clothes to function adequately. Stillman Infirmary is ancient, outmoded and inconvenient. The Hygiene building itself is bulging with a pot-pourri of clinics, laboratories, and offices that crowd in on each other with abandon...
Research, too, is an important function. Every man who has the ill-fortune to collapse with mononucleosis (62 in '51) gets Dr. Andrew Contratto's pamphlet on the disease as part of his Stillman reading-matter. Mono was unknown here until twenty years ago when laboratory blood tests began showing a startling breakdown of white blood corpusles, among other things...
...Buck's administration--the institution of the General Education program. Buck served as chairman of a 12-man committee which produced the 267-page report, General Education in a Free Society. The report noted that "education seeks to do two things: help young persons fulfill the unique, particular function of life which it is in them to fulfill, and fit them so far as it can for those common spheres which, as citizens and heirs of a joint culture, they will share with others. . .Democracy is a community of freedom. The quality of alert and aggresive individualism is essential...
...from The Bronx said: "It's like any other night-just too damned long." Probably no soldiers on earth really prefer fighting at night, but the Chinese and North Koreans have good and obvious reasons for avoiding daylight assaults. The U.N. artillery, close air support and air observation function best by day. At night it takes about 20 minutes for star shells or a flare plane to illuminate a combat area, and this time is valuable to the furtive Reds. Their own artillery, though abundant, is sluggish in following a moving target...
...Reds have good reasons for attacking at night, the U.N. has equally good ones for assaults by day. Not only do the allied artillery, air support and air observation function best in daylight, but U.N. commanders and troops like to see what they are doing and where they are going. They have found that when things go wrong at night, they can go "awfully wrong"-meaning that nocturnal confusion causes unnecessary casualties. Also, if the enemy has succeeded in grabbing a U.N. outpost during the night, it pays the U.N. to counterattack at dawn's early light...