Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Learning by Defending. As a result of all this, says Research Attorney Lee Silverstein of the American Bar Foundation, 26 states have instituted vital reforms. In the American Bar Association Journal, Silverstein reports that the Gideon case has particularly affected Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, North and South Carolina, where a poor man's right to free counsel previously covered only capital cases. The right now covers felonies in all five states. Florida, which produced Gideon, has set up a statewide public-defender system and now permits law students to defend indigents-as do New York, Colorado, Connecticut and Massachusetts...
...world outside the casinos is hard and unreal, the internal gambling life is distorted and uninteresting. Occasionally Jeanne and Claude make self-conscious speeches about why they gamble: because it is exciting, vital, and passionate (winning streaks get musical background). But by making his characters play a roulette of hunches, Demy ignores the great tension in gambling between the desire for rational control and the hope of accidental success. Claude and Jeanne never play a "system;" they win in runs on single numbers, at odds of 36-to-1. "Play 17," he tells her. "Why," she asks...
...South Viet Nam's six biggest ports can at present handle only 17. As many as 40 ships at a time have been diverted to Japan, Okinawa and the Philippines to await docking space in Viet Nam; hundreds more have been held up in U.S. West Coast ports. Vital war materiel has no priority over commercial cargoes. An ammunition ship recently waited 23 days for a berth in Saigon, whose port facilities are hardly a match for those of Castine, Me. Viet Nam critically lacks warehouse space and distribution facilities. Last week 9,000,000 cans of beer...
...urging airports, whose lack of standby power in the Northeast blackout shocked everyone, to put in emergency systems for landing lights and radar. Moreover, the Northeast blackout taught utilities the value of auxiliary units not only for partial power when a big generator conks out but for the vital push needed to get it started again. Utilities also find auxiliaries valuable for peak-load periods when their big steam generators often cannot fully meet the demand for power...
...removing every other 35 milliseconds of sound from a regular speed tape. Cramer can produce speech at double speed. Removing more tape segments speeds the speech up even more. Yet the speech is still of normal pitch and none of the vital parts of words are obliterated...