Word: function
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University Marshal William G. Anderson '39, said yesterday, "The function of the Sheriff is an official function, and he should wear the uniform appropriate." Anderson said that Suffolk County Sheriff Thomas Eisenstadt would fulfill the role, unless Buckley changed his mind...
...differ in style and function. Haldeman, says Herb Klein, Nixon's communications director, is "the city manager of the White House," the man who sees that things get done. He is in Nixon's office so often, says an associate, that "he's usually trying to get out at the same time everyone else is trying to get in." Haldeman runs his staff meetings tightly?"I bang 'em through hard and fast, I zoom 'em past" ?and he is the only Nixon man who has no schedule of his own. His is shaped entirely by Nixon...
...American Navy (Cliff Robertson) is straight out of The Bridge on the River Kwai; he becomes the company pragmatist who is determined only to save his own neck. The rest of the motley crew consists of bellyaching foot soldiers (Ian Bannen, Ronald Fraser, Lance Percival, Percy Herbert) whose only function is to keep the humor flying by calling each other "nits" and "fairies," and to get killed...
...aspirations of one group of private citizens and indeed go beyond the demand of the American consumer for safer, healthier and more durable products at reasonable cost. They are clearly pointed in the direction in which General Motors and every American corporation must move if they are to function effectively and responsibly in the difficult years ahead. As stockholders and citizens we urge that management respond affirmatively to the goals of the proposals and search for acceptable ways to realize them...
Inexorable Progress. Banfield believes that American cities are turning out a relatively humane citizenry−and an increasingly wealthier one. It has been the traditional function of the city, in fact, to attract the rural poor, both from the U.S. and abroad, and to provide them with better jobs and a better life. This process is not always apparent; often it is accompanied by what seems to be an upsurge in human misery, as the poor crowd into low-cost housing in the center of the city. But inexorably, they move up the social scale and out into more pleasant...