Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drastic to have a chance of legislative approval. In testimony before the full Judiciary Committee, also chaired by Celler, the Attorney General protested: "What I want is a bill, not an issue." Celler was willing to compromise a little, but not much?and in his drive, he got some vital help from House Republican leaders. In conferences with Celler and President Kennedy, G.O.P. Floor Leader Charles Halleck and Ohio's William McCulloch, the ranking minority member of the Judiciary Committee, pledged their support for a slightly watered-down version of the Celler package. They asked only one thing in return...
...Administration request for $4.5 billion -Lyndon Johnson decided to try a different approach. He sent up a "preshrunk" program of $3.4 billion, the lowest asking price in foreign aid's history. His aides compared it to a bikini -skimpy, but just enough to cover the vital areas...
...strong lobby and monopolistic control over an industry vital to the American public, A.T. & T. has virtual control of the U.S. itself. Government agencies may be finally realizing the awesome power exercised by this company and taking measures to prevent a further contempt of the democratic free-enterprise system. Thank...
...responsibility. He feels that the world is changing too fast to keep up with ("and I'm not getting any younger"). And he believes that motion picture animation is a medium particularly well suited for interpreting scientific developments in human terms--a function, he feels, that becomes ever more vital in an age of automation and nuclear power...
...wish to place the weight of innovation precisely at the middle point where previously separated phenomena may now come together. The extremes will remain: a broadly conceived survey of Western history stressing economic phenomena should be no less welcome than a course in drama and the epic. Both examine vital aspects of our civilization's development and of the culture we inherit from that development. But we hope that the middle area, where literature and art, ideas and beliefs, may be analyzed in conjunction with social and political phenomena, will come alive and be the subject of experimentation in course...