Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four high schools on one campus, just as well as if they were in different parts of town." Such a plan enables the big expensive facilities--library, gymnasium and swimming pool, lunchroom--to be utilized by all schools, and still to have administrations and student bodies small enough to function effectively...
...Riverside Neighborhood Association met with Mayor Edward A. Crane, City Manager John J. Curry, and Police Chief Daniel J. Brennan, David N. Bailey, president of the Association, stressed that the most important function of such a committee would be to serve as a liaison between the police and the citizens of Cambridge...
...obvious in spots, it serves the work handsomely. Right from the ominous opening trombones, it is clear we are in for something impressive, a far cry from the satirical score he provided for Beyond the Fringe. Woodwinds, percussion, harp, a long viola solo, harpsichord, and even wordless voices--all function with telling effect...
...their less spectacular form, kidney diseases are among the most common causes of illness and death. Most patients recover, but each year in the U.S. 45,000 die of insufficient kidney function. Dr. E. Hugh Luckey, physician-in-chief at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, cited this somber statistic as introduction to a pair of hour-long seminars on renal diseases broadcast by New York's educational WNYC-TV Channel 31. Sponsored by the New York Academy of Medicine, the programs gave general practitioners and internists the latest word on diagnosis and treatment-much...
Newspapers justify such generous attention to TV's news function on rather curious grounds. "A news event on TV is just another TV program," says Detroit News TV Columnist Frank Judge, who thinks more televiewers should watch the news and encourages News readers to do just that. Los Angeles Times Publisher Otis Chandler is even more unselfish. "I'm the first to admit that TV news is very good here," says Chandler. "But just because television is a good competitor is no reason for reducing your coverage...