Word: vital
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...confronting the crisis, it is vital that the U.S. convince the Communist leaders that the nation is willing to fight and its citizens are ready to sacrifice. Last week, across the U.S., 82,000 reservists and National Guardsmen prepared to answer a call to active duty. Among them were 10,000 officers and enlisted men from 72 Wisconsin communities. They were members of the National Guard's famed 32nd Division-and there could be no doubting their spirit...
...ready to fight." If war comes in Germany, it will smash against the U.S. Seventh Army, which guards more than 300 miles of the East German and Czechoslovakian border and anchors the NATO defense line that stretches 650 miles from Austria to the North Sea. The most vital mission in the five-division Seventh Army belongs to the 3rd Armored, which must plug the Hessian Corridor, a historic route of conquest. Says Lieut. General Garrison ("Gar") Davidson, 57, commander of the Seventh Army: "The 3rd Armored will give the Reds their first bloody nose...
Kennedy's personal military adviser is General Maxwell Taylor, a leading exponent of flexible warfare (TIME cover, July 28). Last month the Defense Department merged Stateside Army units and Air Force fighter-bomber squadrons to increase vital air-ground coordination on the battlefield. In appropriations, the Army got an extra $1.4 billion with instructions to spend it mainly on the men and materiel of limited war. Around the world, Army units are getting a badly needed transfusion of modern equipment: the fully automatic M-14 rifle (which finally is replacing the famed M-1 of World...
...members of the American College of Surgeons left their scalpels in the autoclave last week and met in Chicago for the college's annual congress. There they heard news of outstanding progress in handling life-and-death problems in three of the body's most vital organs: the heart, the lungs and the brain...
Professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School and surgeon in chief of Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Dr. Moore is the nation's-perhaps the world's-outstanding authority on the vital importance of "electrolyte balance" in preserving life (TIME, Oct. 6,1952). The balance is usually expressed simply in terms of sodium salt solutions v. potassium salt solutions in the blood. But recent years' work has shown that it is far more complex than that...