Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cape Kennedy, while they were still on their first orbit, Conrad and Gordon rendezvoused and docked with an Agena target vehicle that had been blasted into orbit only a few hours earlier. It was the first successful space link-up accomplished so soon after launch, and it simulated a vital step in the Apollo moon mission. After exploring the surface of the moon, Apollo astronauts will have to blast off in their little lunar excursion module (LEM); then, after only 11 orbits, they will have to rendezvous and dock with the moon-orbiting Apollo mother ship...
...VITAL part of TIME journalism is the dialogue between writers and editors in New York and reporters in the field. The New York end of the dialogue consists of queries that may be a simple question asking, in effect, "What happened?" Most of the time, however, what happened is already fairly clear in broad terms, and what the editors want is details, consequences, overall meaning...
Howard then took his case to the U.S. Court of Appeals, and last month in Richmond, Judge Simon Sobeloff was also puzzled by the superintendent's behavior. If getting the names of Howard's fellow Muslims was so vital, said Sobeloff, Cunningham could have asked all those who wanted services to sign a list. Because the prison records gave no indication of why Howard was confined, other than "for the good of the institution," the three-judge Appeals Court unanimously held that he was being arbitrarily punished "for making a reasonable attempt to exercise his religion...
...authority is the county board of supervisors, five elected officials who have the last word on many countywide affairs. As the Senate's cities experts discovered last week, city government is confined largely to such functions as police and fire protection, while the county provides such vital services as public health and welfare. More than 300 special districts deal with water, air pollution and transportation, and all 70 school districts in Los Angeles County are run by completely independent boards...
Integrated circuits are becoming one of the basic building blocks of the space age. They are vital to the electronic systems of the Minuteman II and Polaris missiles, the Navy A-7A attack bomber and the supersonic, swing-wing F-111A. They are at work in the radiation measurement system aboard Lunar Orbiter I and will be used in the Apollo Project's lunar excursion module. ICs are used in the new ground-surveillance radar system at the Atlanta airport and are being designed into most new military and commercial computers. Within the last year, the tiny chips have...