Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...living-room floor of Child Psychiatrist Ralph D. Rabinovitch and his psychiatrist-wife Sara Dubo. (They have since resigned, will leave after the unit is in full operation.) In the planning, their first premise was that a mentally ill child has suffered a lack of something vital in his home life. It would only make things worse to keep him in an old-fashioned institution. So, despite all the precautions needed for damage control, they stressed what Dr. Waggoner calls the positive, made the atmosphere in the unit as little like that of a hospital as possible...
...Federal Power Commission has regulated gas production at the wellhead, with the "primary aim of preventing exploitation of consumers." But supporters of the bill maintain that these regulations curtail the profits of the nation's more than 5000 gas producers--most of them relatively small--discouraging them from seeking vital new reserves. The real violators of the consumer's interest, according to Senator Fulbright of Arkansas, sponsor of the bill, are the pipe-line companies who collect 90 cents from every dollar spent for gas by the householder. The amendment, he claims, would stimulate new industries based on an increased...
...labyrinthine politics of Soviet power, control of the police apparatus is vital. Khrushchev and his party cadres have apparently gained one more sector on the eve of this week's 20th Party Congress. But they still advance carefully. The Pravda announcement referred to Kruglov as "comrade," indicating that he was not, so far, an "enemy of the people." All five previous bosses of Russia's secret police either died at their jobs or were executed shortly after being removed...
...Middle Ground. Do the results of the experimental pioneers justify their vast efforts? Modern art being as resolutely individual as it is, the answers are likely to be almost as numerous as the audience. Some see in it a new and vital means of human expression; others, while granting the decorative merits of the moderns, argue that they fail in the essential function of any art form: to communicate from artist to audience...
...above the same 1955 week. Manufacturers' durable-goods inventories were still climbing, said the Commerce Department. In December they reached $26.3 billion, a whisper away from the $26.6 billion reached in 1953 just before the cut in buying and inventory recession. But this time there was a vital difference in the nature of the U.S. economy. Sales are now a far bigger proportion of inventories. Said Manhattan's Bankers Trust Vice President Roy Reierson: "Generally, there is no danger...