Word: function
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Dark Night. Then there was Cuba. It was a tragedy, but if nothing else it served the function of a hickory stick in the presidential education of John Kennedy. Kennedy had inherited the unpleasant fact of Communist Fidel Castro's rule over an enclave within 90 miles of U.S. shores. He also inherited from Dwight Eisenhower a specific plan for the U.S. to back, with air cover and logistical support, an anti-Castro invasion of Cuba by Cubans. But Kennedy decreed that the U.S. should not provide some of the necessary ingredients to that plan-such as air cover...
...limited crises, serve as a highly convenient channel of force where (as in the Gaza Strip and the Congo) the use of national armies would be unpolitic or unsafe. Nor is its function as an international forum negligible, though much derided. "World opinion" may be an elusive force on whose wooing much effort can be wasted. But the U.N. remains a place where participants in a quarrel can be quickly summoned, where alarum can be raised, attitudes judged, responsibility or irresponsibility exposed, pressure exerted. In short, it is a place where, despite perils and failures, men and groups engage...
Himalayas in the Heart. Answering the attacks, Nehru rambled on, by turns firm and foggy. He blamed himself for misreading Red China's intentions, admitted that he had "trusted-'trusted' is perhaps not the right word-thought that the Chinese would not function as they did later." Rejecting Red China's claim to the southern slope of the Himalayas, Nehru won cheers by declaring: "The Himalayas are not only a part of our territory; they are a part of our hearts and mind...
...successful, the walk will serve an important function by presenting Senators, Representatives and policy officials with a well-argued minority view on the question of disarmament. The Cold War has long choked debate on this issue. While those with a vested interest in the existing military competition have promoted it through effective means (lobbying, public relations programs, political pressure), qualified dissent has gone unpublicized. People who have found the unilateralists politically irresponsible in calling for an immediate and absolute resolution of the nuclear threat, but who could not accept the program of the arms race lobbyists, have had little political...
After a late start, 18 Harvard students spent an excellent weekend exchange program at the University of Toronto, from Nov. 17-19. The weekend was well balanced between a social and intellectual exchange. A lecture, a panel, and discussion groups fulfilled the latter function. The main issues of the weekend centered around Canada's relation to the U.S., amidst present world crisis conditions...