Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marine detachments had been rushed to Thailand to help protect the vital left bank of the Mekong River from the Communist menace. Yet the Reds, since their overwhelming victory at Nam Tha two weeks ago, have been strangely quiet. The Laotian river town of Houei Sai, evacuated in panic after the fall of Nam Tha, was reoccupied by 300 skittish Royal Laotian Army troops. If anything, the Pathet Lao had retreated, not advanced. With Soviet Russia giving at least verbal agreement to the U.S. policy of creating a neutral Laos, it was apparently time once again to bring together...
...Souvanna Phouma packed his bags to return home after receiving a message in which the Vientiane government declared its willingness to settle "the national drama by the rapid formation of a coalition government." Negotiations have been stalled for months because of Phoumi Nosavan's reluctance to surrender the vital ministries of Defense and Interior to the Communists. He was now willing to "discuss" giving those portfolios to Souvanna, in return for a promise that all major Cabinet decisions be unanimous...
...fringe benefits already include a show to train local school board members, a recent production of Macbeth for English literature classes, a statewide monthly brushup program for doctors, and a projected junior college TV program for evening students all over South Carolina. But the vital change is among schoolchildren, now getting a taste of expert teaching for the first time. For thousands of her classmates, one ninth-grader sunis up: "I've learned more this year than I did in the seventh and eighth grades put together...
...Crimson Snit. This has many professors in a snit, and they recently found a voice in the student-run Harvard Crimson. In six scathing editorials, the Crimson blamed Pusey for everything from this year's last-minute 10% hike in room rents to silence on such vital issues as whether Harvard College should expand, how it should revamp general education, and why the university has not exploited federal aid like "the rising stars of American education, such as Berkeley and Michigan." In the Crimson lens, Pusey emerged as aloof, inarticulate, unable to "make relevant decisions." In its most chilling...
...John Wayne's forthcoming African epic, Hatari, Heroine Elsa Martinelli leads three baby elephants, trunk to tail, to a jungle water hole, then back up a hill to a camp. It is a nice scene, but hardly vital to the film. What makes it indispensable is Mancini's music - a calliope, then a bass clarinet noodling a theme suggested by the old boogie-woogie tune, Down the Road a Piece. For the current Experiment in Terror, Mancini uses an autoharp; each appearance of the villain is marked by its dissonant and eerie chords...