Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Asia is not of vital importance to the U.S. After all, so runs this argument, the U.S. is not omnipotent. Walter Lippmann contends that Asia is legitimately the sphere of Chinese influence, just as the Western Hemisphere is America's.* That contention is questionable. Since the early 19th century, the U.S. has grown to a major Pacific maritime power; to surrender the Pacific to China now makes no more sense than surrendering it to Imperial Japan would have in 1941. With Southeast Asia gone, the U.S. would rapidly approach a point where it might have no foothold in Asia...
...Yale, yesterday's match was the end of the season. Harvard, now 11-0 in regular play still has the vital Penn match coming up next Thursday. The match was originally cancelled because of rain, but Harvard agreed to reschedule it when the league race broke open. The Crimson is undefeated is league play, while Princeton and Penn have each lost once...
...grim war pounded on. U.S. and South Vietnamese planes last week continued their daily raids to the North, striking at roads and munitions dumps, trucks and bridges. In Washington, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara revealed that air strikes in North Viet Nam had already shattered 24 vital bridges (see following pages) and that more would fall in the immediate future. On the ground, South Vietnamese troops continued their steady pressure on the Communist Viet Cong, and in swampy Kien Hoa province, 50 miles south of Saigon, government Rangers, supported by U.S. jets and helicopters, killed at least 150 Viet Cong...
...civil servants and even the 30,000-man army frequently go without pay. Air conditioners in most of the capital's sticky offices are turned on only when important visitors arrive. Roadways are falling apart, but when Sihanouk recently ordered a load limit of eight tons on the vital Pnompenh-Battambang Highway, he had to rescind the decree. Shell Oil, which supplies Battambang with all its oil and gasoline, pointed out that its tank trucks weigh six tons empty, and without them the town would soon be unable to operate its electric plants, trucks and cars...
...Wonderful Why. Science has gone far toward delineating the probable nature of the universe. It has even pried into the mechanism by which the human brain thinks. But beyond this, says Bush, science cannot go. It offers no proof, "it does not even produce evidence," on the two vital realities of man's being, his free will and his consciousness. Thus those "who follow science blindly come to a barrier beyond which they cannot see." They end "where they began, except that the framework, the background, against which they ponder is far more elaborate, far more probable than...