Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reading not only Taylor's own book, but more than a thousand pages of military testimony before congressional committees. Then he set forth to interview his subject, who proved courteously cooperative-but busy. The very fact that made General Taylor cover-worthy this week-his role in the vital decision-making on Berlin-also made him inaccessible to interviewing for long stretches of time. Rinehart's final interview with Taylor was conducted at a brisk semi-dogtrot through Arlington National Cemetery. The general likes to start his day at Fort Myer, Va., with a mile and a quarter...
...newly created foreign aid pressure group, the Citizens Committee for International Development (headed by TWA Board Chairman Warren Lee Pierson), to the White House and used the meeting as a sounding board for a plea to the American people. "I consider this bill to be probably the most vital piece of legislation in the national interest that may be before the Congress this year," said the President. "We cannot live in an isolated world. And I would much rather give our assistance in this way than have to send American boys to do it." Then, all week long, the President...
...weaken the Commonwealth." Most Indian businessmen take a more hardheaded view. As India's Economic Times observed: "If the Commonwealth trade preferences which formed the real and tangible advantages of Commonwealth membership did not exist, the Commonwealth itself might fall apart." Ceylon asked for special guarantees for its vital tea trade, which makes up 60% of its exports. The cheeriest support Britain got anywhere in the Commonwealth came from Pakistan's President Ayub Khan, who forthrightly said, "I think it would be a good thing if Britain joined the Common Market.'' His reason: it would strengthen...
...into Kuwait from bases in Kenya, Aden and Bahrein. A British aircraft carrier and a fleet of warships appeared offshore; another flotilla steamed toward the area from the Mediterranean. After the fiasco at Suez, the British were delighted at the chance to demonstrate that they could still defend the vital areas of the Middle East that are the source of Britain...
...permitting the New Haven to postpone paying its taxes and its bonded interest, bankruptcy should get the road past its immediate crisis. But bankruptcy will not solve the New Haven's root problem-which is to find a way of maintaining a service that everyone agrees is vital and should be put on a businesslike basis...