Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nearly a year, while Lyndon Johnson, Dean Rusk and Robert McNamara agonized over whether to step up the U.S. air raids on North Viet Nam, one presidential adviser consistently argued that the bombing of the petroleum depots around Hanoi and Haiphong was vital to the U.S. war effort. Now that the President has accepted that approach-also urged on him by the Joint Chiefs of Staff-the insistent adviser's influence in the Ad ministration's inner circle has increased considerably. The man: Walt Whitman Rostow, 49, the garrulous, determined special assistant who three months ago inherited part...
...their tanks and selling it. Soldiers set up roadblocks to exact a few rupiahs from every passing vehicle. Schools are supposedly free, but teachers expect donations of money or rice from their students. At ports, longshoremen and police openly loot incoming cargoes; one favorite ploy is to remove the vital parts of imported machinery and sell them back to their desperate owners shortly after delivery...
Tactical Triumph. Thus, more than a year after U.S. commanders in the field first urged bombing raids on the North's vital industrial targets, the U.S. last week finally attacked the hitherto-sacrosanct Hanoi-Haiphong complex. The operation was a triumph of tactical planning and destructive efficiency. Said an Air Force colonel who took part in the Hanoi raid: "We did the kind of surgical job that hasn't been done in this...
Most of the School's vital statistics have not changed drastically from last summer. The breakdown will be 52 per cent men and 48 per cent women -- a little less than a woman for every man. About one out of four will be a Harvard or Radcliffe student, who will be glad to show you the sights...
...concerned because his San Francisco office handles twelve largely rural states where farmers have plump incomes - in California they average $12,000 yearly - but tend to buy little insurance. "Life insurance isn't pur chased," he says, "it's sold. So it is vital to take the product to the potential buyer and show it to him." Dye spent $12,000 on two vans, equipped them much more thoroughly than ordinary autos ever could be, and laid out the interiors so that the salesman's desk blocks the doors, making it difficult for a prospect to leave...