Word: functional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Earnest Discussion. The fateful U.S. decision was made by Dwight Eisenhower alone. But behind his personal decision lay weeks of earnest discussion between top-level Administration officials, each one expressing his fears, or his hopes, in the light of his particular governmental function. The calendar of one of the U.S.'s most soul-wrenching secret debates...
...spent part of his time checking charts and part learning to stay awake 48 hours at a stretch. His 250-h.p. plane was fitted with auxiliary wingtip tanks to provide an extra 124 gal. of gas (he consumed all but eleven), and with a special horn. Horn's function: to blow every hour, prevent his falling asleep too long. Boling left a parachute behind to save 25 Ibs.. stocked up on canned pears, apricot nectar and Fig Newtons. Special baggage: the white Bible his wife Joyce, a Seventh-day Adventist, carried on their wedding day. Over the lonely...
...first reluctant to spend as much time away from the Radiation Lab as his new job will require, Chancellor-elect Seaborg has pledged himself to "keep uppermost in.mind the crucial and classical function of a university in society: to foster free inquiry and teaching under the highest possible standards of objective scholarship." But many scientists will still wonder whether one of the world's best chemists should pour himself into the world of university management-which, even at one of the best campuses in the nation, consists largely of parking problems, building plans and ruffled regents...
Though modifying them in detail, the Senate upheld in principle two Housewritten provisions that President Eisenhower bluntly and publicly blasted (TIME, June 9). These provisions 1) give Congress a veto over transfer or abolition of any "major combatant function" in peacetime, and 2) authorize any service chief to go up to Capitol Hill on his own and make any "recommendations." But the Senate deleted altogether a House provision that the President had rapped as a "legalized bottleneck": the requirement that the Defense Secretary's authority over the separate services must be exercised "through" the service secretaries...
...guaranty program can do much to help those nations get the capital they need and to protect the investors who are helping to substitute private investment for public aid. But if it is to be a real shield for forward movement, the program needs a greater awareness of its function by both U.S. businessmen and the members of Congress...