Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...search for Communists extended to Harvard. The University, acting on a long tradition of academic freedom, held firm against the general craze to find subversive scapegoats and against the particular abuses of Senator McCarthy. Vital questions were thrust upon the University regarding the ambigious figure of Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics, at a time of uncertainty caused by the resignation of President Conant. Harvard's action in the Furry case, its support of the scholar's right to political independence at a time when the national desire for blood letting was at its height, was a turning point...
...This was vital, since both nations are in the throes of spy scares. New Delhi offered a $100 reward for every Pakistani spy captured, and an Indian news agency put out a special notice to Delhi citizens: "Anybody having information about paratroopers or any other matter pertaining to the present emergency may convey it to the authorities by phoning...
...absurdity of such a concession to ill-informed public opinion was illustrated last week with the tale of Lieut. Colonel Leon Utter, 39, who was leading his Marine battalion in a search-and-clear operation on a steep hillside near the port of Qui Nhon, eastern terminus of vital Route 19 to the highlands, which was reopened in Operation Ramrod after months under Viet Cong control. Utter soon found the enemy: 20 fully armed Viet Cong troops who promptly took refuge in a nearby network of tunnels. It would have been easy enough for Utter and his men to wipe...
...Market has been so stymied since the French boycotted its policy-making council in Brussels in June that it has not yet figured how to carry out a scheduled 10% year-end cut in its internal tariffs and, more important, has come to a complete standstill in the vital task of formulating a farm price-support policy that is acceptable to all its members. Without the farm agreement-as De Gaulle indicated last week -the Market cannot make even minimal progress...
Ever since the days of the Roman Empire, Europe has depended heavily on inland waterways as vital arteries for its economic lifeblood. West Germany's arteries pump the hardest. Along the country's 2,789 miles of navigable rivers and canals last year flowed 184 million tons of goods and raw materials, 27% of the country's total freight traffic. Germany's 7,600 barges carry more total tonnage than those of any other European country (though the neighboring Netherlands transports 66% of its internal commerce by water). This week in Hannover, Federal Transport Minister Hans...