Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Racial prejudice and anti-Semitism are still vital factors in the selection of club members. The Porcellian Club is reputed never to have admitted a Jewish student, and the story is told that the only Jew ever to enter the Delphic Club did so under an assumed name...
Nobody's On Top. If his fears prove founded in fact, Browne will be missing a reporter's nightmare-a country where reliable sources of any sort are all but nonexistent, where vital communications and transportation are spotty at their best. One Saigon bureau chief recently broke in new hands by telling them that all he had to offer was "crud, fret and jeers. The crud, he said, is indigenous and ubiquitous; the fret results from the job's unavoidable frustrations; the jeers would come from visiting columnists, Congressmen and assorted other critics, all convinced that they...
Twice the launch had been scrubbed, once on May 17 when the Agena target failed to orbit, and again earlier in the week when Gemini 9's on-board computer rejected vital data three minutes before liftoff. Now, for the third time, Astronauts Tom Stafford and Eugene Cernan wearily returned to the pad at Cape Kennedy for a mission that had the earmarks of a rueful joke...
...sign of the slow but steady pinch on imports. And Harold Wilson's Labor government, moving deliberately but diplomatically, took two steps to cope with - but hardly end - the merchant seamen's strike that, in its second week, was slowly strangling Britain's vital commerce with the outside world...
...usable spare parts for others. France's National Academy of Medicine added to the furor by proposing that a patient may be adjudged dead if the EEG has shown no brain activity for 48 hours. After that, the academy recommended, surgeons should be allowed to remove vital organs for transplantation even before the artificial circulation is shut...