Word: vital
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...trip will also serve to straighten out the rankings of the various players. It should decide the top three positions between Dale Junta, Brooks Harris, and Ham Graven, and unsnarl the tangle of players fighting for positions four through ten. Also a vital factor will be the decision on the arrangement of doubles combinations...
Cyprus is not a U.S. base, but it is of strategic importance to the whole pattern of Western defense in the cold war. It is Britain's command post for the Middle East; it guards vital sources of oil supply; it lies along the best line of communication between Europe and Asia; it is in an area where there is no satellite buffer zone on the Soviet Union's border. For those reasons the U.S. State Department has been watching anxiously the dispute between Britain and Cypriot nationalists who want enosis (union) with Greece. Behind the scenes...
...doubt that gallant and dashing Major Woodfall's D.S.O. and Military Cross were well and truly earned on the field of battle. All took it for granted that his relatively humble job as managing director of a small London hotel was in reality a cover-up for the vital and undercover Secret Service work at which he often hinted over a confidential whisky and soda at the Ritz bar or the Dorchester...
...piece band played a concert in London's Albert Hall, where jampacked fans hungrily took in such Kenton specialties as Theme of Four Valves and 23° N= 82° W* Critical evaluation ranged from cool ("about 30% art, 70% commercial gloss") to enthusiastic ("at all times vital and alive"), and it seemed certain that Kenton would establish attendance records on his 35-concert tour of the British Isles. Under an agreement between the two unions, top British Bandleader Ted Heath will reciprocate with a tour of the U.S. next month...
Some critics argue that increased East-West trade would allow Russia to divert resources from consumer production to industrial uses, by enabling her to import many consumer items. This, however, is not a vital consideration. Estimates of Russia's gross national product run to about $125 billion (converted to U.S. dollars and purchasing power). Of this, about fifty percent ($62.5 billion) probably goes for consumer items, thirty-five percent to capital investment, and fifteen percent to military uses. If the U.S. were to increase its trade with the U.S.S.R. to the tune of, for example, $200 million, which is practically...