Word: vital
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Despite the party coloration of its choices, the Administration insists that political factors will not get in the way of selecting good men for vital jobs. "It is a political process by which judges are selected," explains Whizzer White. "The President nominates them. The Senate Judiciary Committee holds hearings on them. The Senate confirms them. But this is a political process in the broad sense, not in any odious sense. This is our system of government...
...Army. This year the schools cost $567.7 million (plus $66.6 million for new construction), more than the budget of the state of Missouri. The schools employ not only 40,000 teachers but also more administrators than all of France. The system is smothered in a bureaucracy so ponderous that vital problems never reach "Livingston Street," or board headquarters, a soot-stained Brooklyn building that once housed the Elks of the region...
Glowing with radiant orange anticollision paint, a U.S. Air Force 707 jet lifted away from Andrews Air Force Base one morning last week and set course for South America. On board was Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon and his 35-man delegation to the vital Alliance for Progress conference at Punta del Este, Uruguay. The delegates carried a rough outline of the shape of the Alliance and a ringing challenge from President Kennedy: "The hopes of millions of people throughout the Americas rest to a very large extent on the success of your efforts." As their jet winged...
Cause of the activity was a special meeting of the economic ministers of the Latin American nations, called by the U.S. to hammer into shape President Kennedy's Alliance for Progress, the most vital aid program in the history of the hemisphere. At the start of the conference this week, Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon, leading the U.S. delegation, will propose a generous, but often stern, program. Even the minimums are staggering. To help raise the per capita income in each country by 2.5% a year, the U.S. intends to pour $1.3 billion a year into Latin America...
Sure that his requests are vital to national security, President Kennedy will at long last ask for the specific sacrifices that he urged the U.S. to make in his Inauguration Speech. The new programs will cost more than $3 billion. Rather than risk inflation by further deficit spending, the President will ask Congress for a tax hike-and Congress will be hard put to refuse...