Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week bearded Fidel Castro was moving at the head of his irregulars toward Havana, getting tumultuous welcomes from every town. His movement would have to reorganize Cuba and try to run its government; he promised that the rebels would permit the harvesting of the vital sugar crop and restore constitutional rights. But he would not personally run the show, he said. "Power does not interest me, and I will not take it," he vowed. "From now on, the people are entirely free, and our people know how to comport themselves properly...
...short of true convertibility. But henceforth, foreign businessmen will be able to change pounds freely into dollars (at an official rate ranging between $2.78 and $2.82). The result, so London hoped, would be to maintain the pound's position as Europe's leading medium of exchange-a vital matter to the British, who. with only 4% of the world's money, do 40% of the world's banking...
...Travail, the nation's only trade union, Ibrahim has ranted against foreigners, talked of nationalizing foreign interests and demanded the ouster of U.S., French and Spanish troops from their bases in Morocco. "Independence is not liberty," he declared recently. "Our economy remains in the hands of others, our vital installations are at the disposition of foreigners, our social standards fall daily while foreign troops continue to occupy the country...
Handsome Quarterback Unitas went to work. Throwing hook passes to the side lines that got just enough for vital first downs, he drove the Colts to the Giants' 13. There, with a precious 9 sec. left, Steve Myrha booted the tying field goal...
These proceeding have been viewed with considerable interest, since the question of variations on the building code will be of vital importance to the University...