Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kennedy left no doubt about the importance he places on the Rules Committee battle. "I hope that the Rules Committee is kept to its present number," he said, "because we can't function if it isn't. We are through if we lose-if they try to change the rules. Nothing controversial in that case would come to the floor of the Congress. Our whole program in my opinion would be emasculated." Which is pretty much what Judge Smith had in mind, and he was not backing down an inch. "The Rules Committee issue," he said...
...important type of radio telescope does not try to observe celestial objects with a single antenna. Instead, two antennas are placed a considerable distance apart and connected electronically so that they function like parts of a single, very large dish. Since a telescope's resolution is proportionate to its width, the double antenna has a far narrower beam than a single dish. Even finer resolution is obtained by long, rocking metal troughs that gather radio waves and focus them so that they interact with waves gathered by another antenna running at right angles to the first. In Australia...
...thing, resort fashions, though basically no different in purpose or function from regular old summer clothes, have always brought out the exotic impulse in even the most conservative housewife. Raspberry silk, in the dank gloom of December, is somehow a good deal more raspberry and more silky than when seen in the golden context of a June day. But even with the inherent glamour that comes with trekking out in storm boots to buy clothes fit for sea and shore, this year's selection has an added bit of zing...
...zero. Technically, he was dead. Each time, injections of adrenaline and strophanthin, and blood transfused directly into an artery, brought him back to a semblance of life. Landau spent seven weeks on artificial respiration; it was another seven weeks before he began to show signs of returning brain function...
NUTSHELL LIBRARY, by Maurice Sendak (Harper & Row; $2.95), is a box of four delights, tiny enough for a child to hide away and keep. All the stories are both written and illustrated by Sendak, who is the Picasso of children's books, and each of them has a function: one teaches counting, another the alphabet, a third offers a strong moral (you should care), and the fourth praises the wonders of chicken soup with rice...