Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vital Stake. Seldom had the winds of war blown about such artless heads. But the danger was nonetheless clear and present. Six years of Pathet Lao insurrection had kept the countryside in turmoil, and had thus made Laos a corridor through which North Viet Nam moved men and supplies to support its guerrillas operating in South Viet Nam. This was a stake that the Communists were not prepared to lose. The Russian news agency Tass warned darkly that U.S. "intervention" could lead to "a second Korea." With the Russians supplying one side and the U.S. the other, the possibility...
...period Rabi (rhymes with hobby) did try the workaday world outside the laboratory?he analyzed furniture polish and mothers' milk; he ran a Brooklyn newspaper until it failed?"then came the vision, I found physics and myself." His experiments in molecular physics won a Nobel Prize in 1944, were vital to U.S. atomic research. Now a part-time professor at Columbia University, Rabi argues that all scientists ought to be "oddballs." Their lives, he says, leave no room for such bourgeois considerations as suburban homes or Madison Avenue clothes: "Once you put on the clothes and cut your hair...
...Wahoo, Neb. when he got a crush on his pretty high school science teacher. Neither Beadle nor science ever quite got over it. The farm boy went to college and became a geneticist. With skill, patience and insatiable curiosity he helped to transform his narrow, abstruse specialty into a vital branch of science. Moving on from the classic fruit-fly experiments which had extended the study of heredity, Beadle began to investigate the intricate internal chemistry of bread mold. His observations led to a major scientific breakthrough: the first intimations of the manner in which genes control enzymes and enzymes...
...WORLD OF APU. In this concluding section of a trilogy (Part One: Father Panchali; Part Two: Aparajito) by Satyajit Ray, contemporary India is born in suffering, and the film itself emerges as a modern Mahabharata, one of the most generously vital movies ever made...
...nerved himself up to his first speech as a representative of the royal family. He's a one-camera-at-a-time man. Said he: "I can only tell you what I personally use a camera for. Basically, it is to record a moment-a moment that is vital-to give the viewer a sensation of liveliness, sadness, joy and so on. One sees people wandering about looking like a photographic Christmas tree, and when they want to use any of their apparatus, it takes so long to disentangle it that the moment is lost." Is Tony still...