Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your cover story on hydrology [Oct. 1] was most informative. Increased knowledge of the problems before us is vital. In New York, our problem is not one of water quantity but of water quality. As you indicate, "the people who vote must make the commitment" that will assure a steady flow of water. On Nov. 2, the people of New York are asked to make such a commitment. On the ballot will be a $1 billion bond issue to provide 60% of the cost of sewage treatment facilities needed through 1970 to end water pollution in New York...
...anything"; the next, he will say Bill is "in charge of everything." Some White House watchers go so far as to rate him the No. 2 man in the entire Administration-over such Cabinet members as McNamara-on the assumption that keeping L.B.J. running smoothly is every bit as vital a task as running the Pentagon...
Stockholm's Caroline Institute last week awarded the 1965 Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine to three French investigators for brilliantly imaginative research into the mechanisms by which genes regulate vital biochemical processes. Though the work has no present practical application, it has inspired hundreds of other researchers, and hopefully, within a generation or so, it may lead to means of controlling genetic processes in humans. The three Pasteur Institute scientists who will share the $56,400 prize...
...abortive 1936 kidnaping of Chiang Kai-shek by Shensi-province Reds. Taiwan's bank is headed by ascetic Yu Kuo-hwa, 51, a veteran follower of Chiang who studied at Harvard and the London School of Economics. Taiwan's branches abroad are becoming the bank's vital arm. Last year the Nationalist bank reported earnings of $3,200,000, its biggest profit-and $2,300,000 of that came from overseas operations...
...curator at London's British Museum, grandly dismissed everything else written about Proust in the past-"the subject has never yet been treated with anything approaching scholarly method." This handsome piece of scholarship certainly makes all other Proust biographers look like dropouts. And if love is the vital ingredient of definitive biographies, then this is the definitive biography of Proust...