Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will be matched against Harvard's Bill Murphy in the dives. Brown edged Murphy last year in the three-meter, and whoever wins this event today will be rated first in the league. A third-place finish in the diving by the Crimson's Dick Eisenberg could be of vital importance...
...think we'll be slightly ahead coming out of the lower weights." Lee said. "The upper weights could be vital, and they're too close to call...
Early last Fall, SDS focused its attention on the presence of ROTC at Harvard. As the New York Times pointed out in December. ROTC-graduated second lieutenants play a vital role in the Vietnam War. From a broader perspective, the U.S. military provides support for America's more refined imperialist presence in underdeveloped countries around the world with soldiers, weapons technology, and training in counter-insurgency methods...
...lessons from the Corporation's ROTC decision are most important. Rarely are the inner workings of a power structure revealed so blatantly and explicated so succinctly to the people it victimizes. Student power will not be allowed to interfere with the Corporation's hegemony over Harvard's vital decisions...
CLEARLY THE Fainsod Committee has been designed not to instigate student power but to co-opt it before the issue really threatened the Corporation's vital interests. The Committee's principal protagonists, Dean Ford, President Pusey, and Merle Fainsod are knowing in the ways of corporate bureaucracies. The first solicits money for them, the second administrates them, and the third studies them. Their hopes for the Committee, conscious or not, probably go something like this: the study will take three months, the reaction will take some time, and in the meantime, several "student leaders" will have developed a large stake...