Word: vital
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...retire to Kansas while the Russians retain their grip on Eastern Europe. Western leadership, then, faces a dual task. The point has to be patiently and consistently put across to the Russians that NATO and all other arrangements under which American forces provide a shield for smaller countries are vital to western defense (and to defense only). Meanwhile the western people themselves have to be reminded that the Communist objective is, and was throughout the Malenkov era, nothing less than domination of a Eurasia uncluttered by American presence or American power...
...enough third places to take the 34th annual intercollegiate A.A.A.A. championship. Deciding event: the two-mile relay (won by Syracuse U.), in which Manhattan's anchor man, Tom Lindgren, took time out between heats to rush his pregnant wife to a hospital,* came back to help earn a vital third. Final scores: Manhattan 27, Villanova 22½, Penn State...
Alpers' back injury, which has sidelined him since last week, has also forced McCurdy to juggle his entrants in the vital 600 and mile relay races, both of which are usually varsity mainstays. As things stand, sophomores Mike Robertson and Zab Warren will replace Alpers in the 600 and mile relay, respectively, and though they have improved continually during the season neither can match the flest junior's times...
When congress established the Atomic Energy commission after the close of World War II, it had high hopes that the new agency could supervise the vital field of atomic energy in an atmosphere free from the turmoil that surrounds most government bodies. In the development of atomic energy for both military and peaceful purposes, the Commissions and controversy. Its five commissioners were to be chosen without regard to party and it was hoped that equal division of power would promote unanimity, or at lest harmony, in policy decisions...
This week in Bangkok, the gaily colored, spike-towered capital of Thailand, eight non-Communist nations with vital interests in Southeast Asia are gathering to decide on practical measures for blocking further Communist expansion in that uneasy area...