Word: vital
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...copter concentration in Alabama is a product of the conflict in South Viet Nam and of the new combat techniques that it has generated. In that war without front lines, holding territory is less important than being able to move over it quickly and at will. Helicopters play a vital, versatile role: they ferry in whole battalions for surprise assaults, carry supplies and reinforcements to the besieged, as in the battle of Plei Me (TIME, Nov. 5), rescue the wounded and the stranded, rake the enemy with fire. And hundreds more are needed. Since President Johnson ordered the massive...
More to the point, Wilson asked for an embargo on Rhodesia's vital tobacco exports and laid down economic sanctions designed to cut off most of its trade. But he rejected military intervention, unless a "legal government" asked for troops to restore order. "Our purpose is not punitive," Wilson said. "Our purpose is to restore a free government acting in the interests of the people of Rhodesia as a whole...
Scientists at both NASA and Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is building Surveyor, the first U.S. lunar soft-landing vehicle, remain skeptical of Barringer's theory. They say it is still largely conjecture. But it is conjecture that has made the problems of radar transparency a vital concern in the design of a sophisticated Surveyor altimeter that should have no trouble distinguishing the true surface of the moon...
...amount of zinc in the human body is so small that textbooks offhandedly record its presence as "a trace." That trace, though, seems important indeed. Small as it is, the body's normal zinc supply is a vital factor in growth. If the supply is increased with daily capsules of an inexpensive zinc compound, said a report sent by Air Force Major Walter J. Pories to the International Congress of Military Medicine in Bangkok, tissue grows so quickly that wounds tend to heal far faster than usual...
...center's entire staff and student body dropped everything to march at Selma). Moreover, while its 127 trainees have unquestionably been shaken by their experience there, some questions about the center's relevance remain: not all ministers are summoned to be worker-priests, and there is a vital spiritual life in plenty of conventional parishes...