Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy reviewed plans for a January fund-raising banquet on the third anniversary of his inauguration, joined Jackie in greeting 700 guests at the annual White House reception for the Justices of the Supreme Court. It was Jackie's first appearance as hostess at an official White House function since the death last August of her infant son. And then, next day, John and Jacqueline Kennedy left for Texas...
...opposing attitudes illustrate two different conceptions of the senior year's function, Mrs. Stimpson noted. The Putney School told Mrs. Stimpson that it is "pleased to stop the program." Putney, and several other private schools, have found that "early notification of acceptance makes the senior year less meaningful to students," she said...
...that his newest brainchild has proved such a prodigy, Sonar Engineer Edwin Turner, 64, plans to deliver two prototypes to the Navy for further trials and then retire. He stresses that Doppler sonar is a supplement, not a replacement for radar and other modern navigational aids. It can function properly only in well-charted waters or far at sea, where the course picked out by its pen is not likely to run into unexpected obstacles. The Navy already has a built-in need for such a device on many of its ships, and along the world's coastlines, where...
...United States funds will be forth-coming. Cuba has been excluded from the Alliance since its inception, and aid to Honduras and the Dominican Republic has been suspended until they re-establish constitutional governments. If such policies are to continue, the disbursement of funds must remain essentially an American function...
...primary function of these schools was that they brought into the organization people with the potentiality of educating others. We're losing the services of some potentially useful people...