Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Donald Patterson, a spokesman for the group of trainees in Cambridge, attributed a good deal of Acclon's success to its independence from government control or recognition. "We are able to function in areas the Peace Corps can't go into, because we are not an official American group," Patterson said...
...dollars have been saved on items ranging from belt buckles to bloomers by the creation of a single Defense Supply Agency. Instead of the charming, old-fashioned practice of trying to cut up the defense budget pie more or less equally among the services, McNamara now budgets by function, cutting across service lines to provide funds for Strategic Retaliatory Forces, Continental Air and Missile Defense Forces, General Purpose Forces, Airlift and Sealift Forces, Reserve and National Guard Forces. Over anguished protests, he is pushing ahead with a reorganization of the National Guard and Army Reserve, including the elimination...
This is inevitable and if we are to continue to play the role in the advance of knowledge which is an essential part of our function, I should like in concluding, however, to assure you that the University though buoyed up by many exciting new developments in science, has not become so giddy as to have lost sight of its ancient concern for humane learning...
...permanent political organization has arisen from the ashes of the Hughes for Senate campaign. Calling itself Massachusetts Political Action for Peace (PAX), the group will function mostly as a pressure group, but also at times as an independent political party...
...highly talented men, had deteriorated into a cliché. He denounced "the dogma of rectangles" and the module system of building - "as monotonous as the Arabian desert." He deplored the "plastering of whole blocks of midtown New York with regimented patterns of glass and porcelain-enamel rectangles." Function, economy and order, said Yamasaki, were no longer enough. "My premise is that delight and reflection are ingredients which must be added. Unquestionably there is delight in our best new buildings, but this delight is in structural clarity, in proportion, and in elegant details and materials, and these characteristics offer...