Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rare story today on which one man, on one spot, can report all that it is necessary to know. That's why we gather information from many spots and employ many minds to try to arrive at the truth. All of these individuals make a vital contribution to the result on their own individual terms...
...their private crusades and crotchets. The U.S. has many subcultures. Creeds and races live unto themselves, often by choice. Parents and children often live worlds apart. There are innumerable social islands of different inter ests, occupations, tastes, hobbies, snobberies and ethics. There are countless voluntary organizations that provide a vital middle ground between two extreme possibilities?a chaotic agglomeration of isolated individuals on the one hand, a totally regimented society on the other...
...according to plan. Syria and Iraq lowered their national flags and raised instead the official three-star banner of Gamal Abdel Nasser's United Arab Republic. Ministers raced from capital to capital discussing plans for merging foreign services, school systems, airlines and textbooks. Military delegations brooded over the vital amalgamation of the three armed forces. Jurists were hard at work on a draft of a new federal constitution to be jointly voted on next September...
Doing Without. Dr. Richard Lillehei says flatly: ''We don't need all the nerves that nature has supplied." As proof, he cites vagotomy in man, and Shumway's dogs. Other surgeons have long since demonstrated how many more supposedly vital parts the body can do without. Thanks largely to medicinal hormones that replace its own supply, the body can function adequately without: the master pituitary gland in the brain, both adrenals, the thyroid, the thymus, spleen, pancreas, gall bladder, one hemisphere of the brain, the gullet, much of the stomach, anywhere from a few inches...
...refinery to rise in southern Germany was inaugurated in Karlsruhe last week. Built by Jersey Standard, the $57.5-million plant will process 3,600,000 tons of crude a year-but its significance goes beyond these impressive figures. The new plant will draw its crude from a new and vital petroleum artery: the Rhone River Valley pipeline, which provides the first link from the Mediterranean into oil-hungry south-central Europe and helps to meet the commercial threat of the Russian pipe network now reaching toward the West through the Iron Curtain countries...