Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FREE CITY. Of all the notions that have been raised, that of establishing West Berlin as a demilitarized "free city" is perhaps the silliest. It was first advanced in the Soviet's 1959 proposals. It would force the departure of Western troops and shatter the most vital of the West's three requirements for West Berlin-that the city remain politically and economically a part of West Germany...
...Vital Part. Berlin and West Germany are inextricably tied together. The more that Khrushchev succeeds in implanting the idea of a permanently divided Germany, the more tenuous will become the position of West Berlin-as a "showcase" of democracy, as a bastion of freedom, as a city that can live. And the more desperate and uncertain the future of West Berlin, the more ominous the outlook for West Germany...
...forces, and a vast new blueprint for safeguarding the U.S. public is being drawn up. Assistant Defense Secretary Steuart Pittman, 42, an ex-marine who was appointed chief of OCD, set the goals for the first phase: "It's an opportunity for people to take part in a vital defense program, to demonstrate the will to face up to thermonuclear warfare. This program carries a message to our Allies, neutrals and potential enemies...
...Megabuck Projects. Parallel to the push for family shelters is the one to defend U.S. private industry. Industrial civil defense is enormously expensive. "It costs megabucks," says Frank Jones of Chicago's Bell & Howell Co., which has buried its vital records as a starter in its own civil defense program. But there is a burgeoning recognition of its worth. Scores of companies now participate eagerly in OCDM seminars, have conducted employee courses in civil defense. Many of the nation's banks have buried their vital microfilmed records for safekeeping. Last month Manhattan's Rockefeller Center announced...
...other body cells that multiply about as fast as cancer cells, and therefore need a lot of uracil, notably those in the bone marrow, which makes blood cells, and those in the lining of the digestive tract. Soon after 5-fluorouracil has attacked the cancer, it damages these vital, normal cells. Patients begin to suffer from vomiting. At the first sign of inflammation and ulceration in the mouth, doctors stop the drug. Usually they try to give heavy doses (injected into an arm vein) for three to five days, followed by smaller doses on alternate days until they have...