Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...security of the free world by maintaining the deterrent power on earth and in space through the late 19503 and 19603 into the 19705. "Our real problem," the President summed up in his State of the Union address last week, "is not our strength today; it is the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow...
...equality, enjoy far pleasanter relations with their Indian colleagues. As for the Indians themselves, they show surprisingly little resentment of the fact that Britons still control 80% of all foreign investments in India, own a majority (64%) of India's tea industry and a quarter of the vital jute industry. Given the choice, say Indian public-opinion surveys, more Indians would choose to visit England than any other place on earth...
Trade & Tariffs. U.S. purchases from Latin America poured $4 billion into the area last year†-a sum half again as much as U.S. economic assistance funds for the whole world. But simply because the trade is so large and so vital, minor changes in U.S. tariffs can affect it drastically. The worst-hurt nation currently is Uruguay. Since 1951 U.S. imports from Uruguay have fallen from $102 million a year to about $18 million, mostly because Western sheep raisers in the U.S. got a prohibitive tariff put on Uruguayan wool. Now the Russians, smoothly operating through Dutch importers, have...
...Wizard. But General Dynamics' competence in weaponry stacks the cards heavily against rapid growth of the corporation's civilian lines. Vital defense projects are bound to grow rather than shrink in the next few years. Convair and RCA have already submitted to the Defense Department plans for an anti-missile missile, the Wizard II, which could search out an incoming enemy ICBM and explode it high in the atmosphere. The Wizard could conceivably be put into production by 1965 (at a cost of up to $5 billion) if the Defense Department gives an immediate go-ahead...
...damaged human organ with a spare part, either artificially made or taken from another person. That medical Utopia seems to be coming closer. Last week a little boy with a ruptured aorta was technically dead for 2¾ hours while surgeons put in a new bit of vital plumbing donated by a man recently dead. Another surgical feat, less dramatic but equally remarkable in its own way, was performed on a pretty teen-ager who, without knowing it, was becoming deformed by a curvature of the spine. For a progress report on both patients see MEDICINE, The Heart That Stopped...