Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHAT are the 1959 cars like? And how well will they be liked? These are always important questions when the new models start to roll, but they have a greater significance this year because the answers will have a vital effect on the U.S. economy. For the answers, TIME correspondents spoke to more than 100 dealers around the country, interviewed potential buyers and Detroit's automakers, peeked under the wraps for a look at some of the still secret '59s. To find out what they learned, why 1959 looks like a big car year...
...first time in Dwight Eisenhower's years in office, the White House last week was headed for a new pace and temper in its vital inner workings. Five days after flinty New Hampshireman Sherman Adams took to television (surprising some viewers with his warmth) to announce his retirement as the President's chief of staff, the President named Adams' successor: Alabama's Wilton Burton Persons, 62, Adams' admiring but totally dissimilar deputy. With Persons in charge, said a White House wag, the difference would be like that between hard cider and mellow bourbon...
...Vital Difference. Fact was that Red China clearly believed that the more protracted the discussions the better. ''If necessary," said Peking Radio last week. "we will talk for five or even ten years.'' Like some U.S. officials, the commissars of Peking saw Quemoy as ''another Dienbienphu"-a position which could be squeezed off with grievous loss of Western prestige and military manpower, but which the West could not rescue without using disproportionate force. But the Communists would be making a grievous mistake if they did not also recognize the difference between Dienbienphu and Quemoy...
...signs of the times: "The only trouble with our intellectual habit of likening our times to the . . . decadent Roman Empire and the challenge of the barbarians is that in the earlier case there was a vital, revolutionary new leaven at work . . . Whether Christianity can once again perform that function remains to be seen. To do so would require a pretty radical rebirth of Christian thought, of which I wish I could see more signs. Perhaps we may find such a rebirth in the remembrance of the Birth, that timeless fact about God which did once turn the world upside down...
...musty forums, and occasional professorial disappointment at the level of knowledge of students, the school charitably offers to all without restriction the opportunity for two months of a Harvard education. As a dynamic facet of the University's design to educate wherever it can, the Summer School serves a vital purpose. In contrast to the noisy plan discussed two years ago of sponsoring a number of Harvard-like colleges throughout the U.S., the Summer School spreads its bit of veritas around quietly--though self-consciously--and in a quite successful, manner...