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Miss Taylor's present assertion that she is not so much a "law-enforcing as a protective and preventive agent--a social worker in the police department," is the characteristic attitude of the entire bureau, whose function, according to Lieutenant Thomas J. Stokes, Bureau chief, "is to correct by adjustment...
...Primary function of the Center, Hamlen stated, would be as a sort of "transient meeting place where any of Harvard's 82,000 Alumni visiting Cambridge could hang their coat, rest their weary bones, or thaw out after a football game...
...Surprise. Few were surprised, and only Communists were angered, by Mr. King's announcement. Actually, U.S. and Canadian military men have been working together all along. Since war's end the armed forces of both nations have been experimenting to see how machines would function and how men could live and fight in the Arctic. The Canadian Army's "Musk-Ox" expedition (TIME, Feb. 25, 1946), on which U.S. observers went along, was one test. So was the U.S. "Operation Frostbite"-the northern trip of the aircraft carrier Midway, which carried a Canadian observer. The U.S.Army...
...done, Roy Roberts lies abed reading far into the night. He gets through a book or two a week, half a dozen magazines (including the New Republic and the Nation, "to see what the nuts are up to"). Now that he has the title as well as the function of head man, he will still give his audience in public, out in the open in the newsroom. "If I couldn't see people and hear what was going on," he says, "I'd be unable to work. I'd get fidgety...
...Four days after installation of the ''foolproof" traffic control system was proudly announced to the press last winter, it failed to function, sent a freight head-on into a passenger train, killing a fireman. The Rio Grande has had no other fatality since McCarthy took over...