Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Amidst the exchange of insults, Vance and his North Vietnamese counterpart, Colonel Ha Van Lau, met but got nowhere on the issue of a conference table. Hanoi, in fact, has rivaled Saigon in its fussing over the point. For both, the seemingly puerile bickering about furniture represents a vital issue of sovereignty. The Communists are determined to bring the N.L.F. to the table as an equal; Saigon just as adamantly refuses...
While her father was assembling his Cabinet, Julie Nixon was hard at work on vital plans of her own-and was keeping them to herself with equal determination. Even when it became clear that she could have a White House wedding if she wished, she stuck firmly to her idea of keeping the ceremony private. With the guest list and other details a closely kept secret, she and Dwight David Eisenhower II, Ike's grandson, will be married Sunday at Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church...
...What is needed, said the commission, is nothing less than a $10 billion annual increase in federal spending, plus the creation of 550 new colleges. Without that expensive and expansive dose, the 14-man committee of educators and businessmen reported, the U.S. will fall far short of meeting a vital need for more and better higher education for more and more students of all income groups...
...diversity of its students. In Loewen's study, almost one-half of Harvard's undergraduates said that what they liked most about their college was its supposed diversity. However, former dean of admissions William J. Bender made a prediction seven years ago that revealed why Harvard lacked one vital kind of diversity--economic diversity...
There will be a general membership meeting to discuss vital matters at 10 p.m. tonight at Memorial Hall 168. All members welcome...