Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would not want this opportunity to pass," he announced, "and . . . appear to give the impression that I subscribe to [McCarthy's] point of view . . . We are not bankrupt in our negotiating power . . . The President [will] do everything possible to protect the vital interests of the country and of the free world [at the Geneva Conference]." Then he urged united support of the President and of the Geneva meeting...
...task forces have been formed, and the rubber, chemical and iron and steel industries have each produced thick, detailed manuals on what to do if bombs drop. Typical topics: how to set up management succession lists in case the top echelon is wiped out; the collecting and storing of vital records in a safe place; arranging for alternate officers to sign emergency payrolls...
...Loyalty Review Board had no authority to review the Peters case, since Peters had previously been cleared by a departmental board. Even dissenting Justices Burton and Reed dodged the constitutional issue, argued that the Loyalty Review Board did have the power to find against Peters. That question was hardly vital. The board was abolished two years ago, and 67-year-old Dr. Peters' appointment has long since...
...children with Salk polio vaccine in 1955. For the most part, they confirmed what critics have suspected for a long time: it was a mistake to try the whizbang jump in little more than a year from laboratory production of the vaccine to manufacturing in tank-car volume. Many vital facts simply were not known when the leap to factory-scale production was made. In the light of this new knowledge, they implied, not only the methods of making and testing the vaccine but also the vaccine itself will be drastically altered as soon as possible...
Citation: "Rigorous researcher, persuasive educator, penetrating theologian; in poetic prose and luminous verse he shares with colleagues and disciples his understandings of high traditions and of vital current experience...