Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...test series, might already be ahead of the U.S. in nuclear weapons development. "This bothers me," said LeMay. "And one of the things that I don't like is that, if this is true and they do know more than we do, they may know something that is vital. They may be able to pick up a weakness in our defense system that they can exploit." Insisted LeMay: "There are risks and no amount of talking is going to make them go away." But he had gone along with the other Joint Chiefs, said LeMay, because, "I think that...
...committee action came as strong doubts about the treaty were being voiced. One influential doubter was former President Dwight Eisenhower, who wrote to the committee from Gettysburg endorsing the treaty but adding one hard reservation-"that in the event of any armed aggression endangering a vital interest of the U.S., this nation would be the sole judge of the kind and type of weaponry and equipment it would employ, as well as the timing of their...
...Most Important Bill. Last year a panel appointed by President Kennedy urged new directions for vo-ed. Reform has become all the more vital because vocational schools are the main instrument for carrying out 1962's Manpower Development Training Act, which established federal-state programs to re-educate 400,000 unemployed people over the next two years. A few weeks ago, the House of Representatives passed a bill to overhaul vocational education, provide additional federal grants ($237 million a year by 1970), plus state and local matching funds...
...Saratoga Trunk, Giant and Ice Palace. But Author Ferber roams as far back as her days as a $3-a-week cub reporter with the Appleton, Wis., Crescent. Never married, she has had an exuberant, lifelong love affair with "this fantastically rich and spectacular, this gorgeously electric and vital country." Bridgeport and Ashtabula interest her as much as Berlin and Athens, and in a few incisive words she can draw an ineradicable image of a city or a country. "Gray, shrouded, crumbling" Galveston reminds her of Miss Havisham in Great Expectations, and Israel is "a sort of Jewish Texas, without...
...promised a safe-conduct to rebel leaders for discussions in Rangoon. Red Flag Leader Thakin Soe accepted. He was picked up by a river gunboat, taken to a government airfield and flown to Rangoon, where he promptly demanded 1) a nationwide ceasefire, 2) withdrawal of Burmese troops from vital Red Flag areas, and 3) a meeting of all political factions-legal and illegal-to form a new government. Taken aback by these demands, Ne Win denounced Thakin Soe as "insincere" and gave him seven days' immunity to get back to the safety of his jungle hideouts...