Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under the original idea, land tagged for redistribution was to be thoroughly studied for crop and livestock potential, then paid for at fair value. Belaúnde wisely exempted the big coastal sugar and cotton plantations that produce vital exports; instead, he aimed chiefly at Peru's highlands, where nearly 30 million of 32 million acres suitable for agriculture are held by big absentee landlords. Even then the government promised to set up a system of priorities to ensure that marginal estates were taken before well-managed holdings...
Other designers have sought out other views. "We are finding that the way to expose is best done in not so vital areas," says Sidney Smilove, designer for Sea B, and he demonstrates what he means with cutout suits that will have men looking at places that never seemed interesting before. Some designers were exploiting the possibilities of netting, which coyly shams at concealing what it clearly reveals. "The back is sexually important, while the exposed navel is no longer news," proclaims Designer Bill Blass, whose backless halter for Roxanne is the halter of the season...
With their successful mission, the four astronauts leaped over past delays and put the U.S. space program back on schedule. Pure science and practical engineering had cooperated to solve the incredibly complex equations of orbital mathematics. Human skill and human courage had added the vital ingredients that made the computations correct. Now the dream of docking two spacecraft while they whirl through their curving courses promised to be no more of a problem than parking a compact car; rescue of astronauts adrift in space became a definite possibility. A manned orbiting laboratory suddenly seemed more than an imaginative scheme...
...Made It. In their less glamorous, but physically more demanding roles aboard Gemini 7, Frank Borman and James Lovell demonstrated a neat combination of endurance, stoicism and humor that was vital to their mission's success. Like Schirra, Borman, 37, was air-oriented from youth, building model airplanes and later selling newspapers to pay for flying lessons. He ranked eighth in his graduating class at West Point before he joined the Air Force. Then an eardrum broken during a practice dive-bombing run made him doubt that he would ever fly again. He was delighted when recovery proved...
While more money and an administrative overhaul were vital, the real promise in the Las Vegas schools lies in their openness to new ideas. "We have some of the best innovations in education going on-and probably some of the worst," says Newcomer. In the city's Paradise Valley area, the new, low-slung $4,600,000 high school has open arches rather than doors in windowless rooms shaped in triangles, arcs and diamonds. Sliding partitions convert a classroom to a 250-student lecture hall...