Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most important thing to remember about George Romney is that he is a public relations man by trade--the first professional PR man to become a serious contender for the Presidency of the United States. For twenty five years he has held jobs in which his main function has been to publicize products of varying quality to convince a not-too-skeptical public that they are all tops. During the '40's he was the head of the Automobile Manufacturers' Association. He moved to Nash-Kelvinator as PR Vice-President in 1953, and when the floundering company became American Motors...
...Pompidou believes that the U.S. concept of flexible response might well turn Europe into a battlefield for U.S. and Russian weapons and thus "limit the area for atomic war to spare Russian and American territory. What we have against this doctrine is that it is specifically conceived as a function of the American geographical situation." The U.S. might get 15 minutes' notice of any missile attack, he added, but for France "the alert will be given by the bombs...
...Court, advocates exactly that test. The A.C.L.U. argues that police custody is inherently so coercive that the suspect's privilege against self-incrimination can be protected only by a lawyer, not by mere warnings from the police, who are his adversaries. In this view, the lawyer's function would not be so much to shut up a guilty suspect as to advise him on his best chances-to say nothing of what the presence of lawyers would do to bolster the faith of the public and potential witnesses in police interrogation...
...said she was unaware that the movie had been publicized as a "lay-in," said her decision not to have the show in Radcliffe Yard was based on numerous technical considerations and especially on the fact that neither of the Yards had ever been used for such a function before...
...Leverett festival is big, and although its budget has been reduced this year, it appears to be growing bigger. It stands unique among the festivals in performing the College-wide function of displaying and judging...