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...major function of modern Vice Presidents is to travel, and Nixon turned himself into a latter-day Marco Polo: nine trips to 61 countries. Everywhere he went, he conferred, orated, debated, press-conferenced. In Moscow to open a U.S. trade exhibit in 1959, Nixon got into a finger-pointing argument on communism with Soviet Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev in the kitchen of an American model home...
Mkhiz said the young generation of South Africans have a significant role to play in shaping the future of their country. Expatriate students in particular have an important function as they will return to South Africa with unique experience, skills and abilities, Mkhiz said...
...lens is made from a new plastic called Equalens II, which allows oxygen to diffuse freely across the lens into the eye. The cornea needs oxygen for the eye to function properly...
...have a much better understanding of howorganizations function and the problems they faceand the solutions to them," says Rosovsky adirector of Corning, Inc. and Paine Weber Group,Inc. "Corporations are supposed to have moreoutside directors, and the Harvard Corporationalso functions as a public board for Harvard...
...boldly between fable and philosophy, Invisible Man is the story of a Candide of color. Down home, our unnamed hero is given a scholarship by the white gentry, then forced by these same burghers to fight other blacks blindfolded. Up North, he works in a paint factory; its metaphorical function is to whitewash the American experience into the American dream. He is the guinea pig of medical sadists and firebrand communists. He is the wary friend of "Ras the Destroyer," a prototype of black militancy...