Word: vital
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...Phil S. Gibson, who retired last year at 72, the state banished overlapping minor courts and nonlawyer judges. In 1960 the voters approved Gibson's pioneering plan to ease aging or incompetent judges out of office (TIME, March 26). But sound organization is only half the story. Equally vital is the quality of California's high court, which currently includes such able men as Justices Mathew O. Tobririer, Paul Peek and Raymond E. Peters. Most important of all is the brilliant legal mind of Gibson's successor, Chief Justice Roger J. Traynor, 65. Traynor, says Illinois...
...would like to see all crooks in jail," says Sutro. "So would Chief Justice Traynor. But this is a government of law not men, and the maintenance of that essential is the difference between our government and tyranny." It is, moreover, what makes a state court vital to U.S. law. "The real danger to law is not that judges may take off onward and upward," says Chief Justice Traynor, "but that all too many of them have long since stopped dead in the tracks of their predecessors...
...agency responsible for the efficacy as well as the safety of new drugs. But growth (from 800 employees and a $5,000,000 budget in 1955 to 4,400 and $53 million today) also meant growing pains. FDA was ill organized and ill housed-some of its most vital scientific work had to be done in a made-over garage. Worse, many of its difficulties were homemade...
...well have been adapted from the same book. Indolence as a theme leads easily to a certain aimlessness of execution, just as nothingness leads to naught. Director De Broca's spontaneity and Cassel's utter abandon with a throng of acquiescent beauties meet every challenge except the vital one of squeezing triumph out of a trifle...
...problem tonight will be containment. Goalie Bill Fitzsimmons has let in some real fluke scores in recent games, and tonight, unlike last Saturday, every goal will be vital...