Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mile run. Hewlett's stronger over longer distances than two miles but, if he has a good day, it could be quite a race. Meehan, also, can be counted to make Straub run for his points. Bill Crain, Dave Allen, and John Ogden will probably also pick up some vital points for Harvard in the middle-distance events...
...food. One of the few world-airline chiefs who can fly his own jets -and sometimes does-Khan has increased PIA's fleet to 20 planes and extended routes until they now stretch from Rangoon to New York. But he is proudest of PIA's vital role in linking Pakistan's divided nation-separated by 1,000 miles of India-and in bringing the advantage of modern transportation to a backward land. "Just think," he says: "many of the farmers flying in our planes have never worn shoes...
...Recipe for Cold Roast Boston," Gordon Milde goes into unnecessary speculation about the future of our technological society, but he also makes the valid point that a neighborhood (particularly a lower-class neighborhood) is a web of vital human relationships which are destroyed whenever the neighborhood is. The planner should realize, therefore, that new highways and urban renewal disrupt the lives of hundreds of people; he should not rearrange cities for purely aesthetic or commercial reasons. Unfortunately, it is sometimes hard to distinguish Milde's ideas from these of Professor Banfield, whom he quotes at the beginning...
There will be quality as well as quantity, however. Six of the seven contests tomorrow (the exception is basketball) will pit Crimson teams against some of the roughest competition they will face all year. All three home games will be particularly vital in assessing the strength of the Harvard Squads with the Army track meet ranking just slightly higher in importance than the McGill squash match or the wrestling match with Franklin and Marshall...
...petroleum geologist, longtime (1943-56) chief of the U.S. Geological Survey, who pioneered the use of micropaleontology (the study of fossils) for finding oil with the 1918 strike at the Desdemona field in Texas, later in Washington spearheaded the wartime campaign to make the U.S. self-sufficient in vital materials that led to the discovery of substantial domestic deposits of vanadium, tungsten, manganese and other valuable ores; of a stroke; in Washington...