Word: functional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME is represented at many of these conventions, particularly at the trade shows and industrial meetings. Our reason, too, is communication: we want to show the conventioneers something of TIME'S own operations, and how we function as an advertising medium...
...these various fields and schools. A Faculty committee, drawn from the members of all the departments whose work impinges on international relations could do the job of planning graduate study and directing large research programs that would cut across artificial departmental barriers. On the undergraduate level, it could function like the present committee on history and literature, providing a field of concentration, with courses drawn from all the allied departments. Thus, for both teaching and research, a committee would provide many of the advantages of a physical center for studies, without consuming large operating expenses. Eventually, like the Committee...
...briar College's package program. Organized by Sweet briar, but including about eighty students from thirty colleges, this non-profit group ships the students to France, guides them through the terrors of the metro, gives them a Parisian education, and then heads them toward home. But in performing it function, Sweet briar imposes upon the students expenses and shackles that make the program resemble a junior year at Sweet briar...
Sweetbriar's $650 is wasted in an unnecessary program, and it performs just one valuable function. It enables Americans without degrees of bachelor of arts to enter, by special permission, certain classes in the French University, which usually requires a college degree from Americans. Yet Harvard students in the past have obtained such special dispensations on their own for a total tuition of $10. Harvard itself, as one of the leading universities in this country, could surely obtain a standing dispensation equal to Sweet briar...
...general theory, the Joint Chiefs of Staff have accepted the idea of the double deterrent. Once the necessity and function of the tactical claw are grasped, some of its future characteristics become immediately apparent. Two essentials toward meeting the requirements of the claw are massive airlift and the determination-preferably the advertised determination-to use tactical atomic weapons. Despite opposition, the decision to use atomic weapons in limited wars seems to have been made. Secretary Dulles has said: "The present policies will gradually involve the use of atomic weapons as conventional weapons for tactical purposes." This week JCS Chairman Arthur...