Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hostile Malaysia aligned with a powerful Indonesia would halt the flow of East-West shipping through one of the world's busiest waterways-the vital Strait of Malacca (see map). And since Indonesia lies athwart other passages north of the 10th Parallel, a sea voyage from Hong Kong to Rangoon would require a detour of some 7,000 miles. Should Viet Nam also fall, west bound jetliners that now fly to India via Thailand would have to be rerouted via Australia-double the distance...
Globalism & Scatteration. As Lippmann sees it, the vital interests of the U.S. are in Europe and the Americas, not in the "soft regions" of Asia and Africa, where the U.S. has been sucked into the power vacuum left behind by the colonial rulers. As a result, "we have scattered our assistance to such a degree that we help everybody a little and nobody enough . . . In this globalism and scatteration we have created enough disappointment and frustration to generate a wave of anti-Americanism . . . Our security and well-being are not involved in Southeast Asia or in Korea and never have...
...years ago, it was widely accepted doctrine that the real confrontation between Communism and the West would come in the "third world" of Asia and Africa. If the U.S. today were to start dismissing all of Asia and Africa as "soft regions" beyond the range of U.S. vital interests, just how long would Europe or the Americas remain "hard...
Business and Government, the two other dominating forces in the economy, were obviously and equally vital in sustaining prosperity. Along with the consumer, they created a nonvicious circle: spending created more production, production created wealth, wealth created more spending. Of the three forces, the consumer did just a little more than most people had expected of him and thus gave the economy a bigger boost than it otherwise would have enjoyed...
People stepped up their spending for better living (furniture sales were up 11%), for leisure (sporting goods up 5%) and culture (books up 8%). Close under the retailer's eye, dear to his heart and vital to his wallet was the fact that 75% of all department-store purchases were made by women. Indulging whimsy and impulse, they bought tens of millions of pairs of lacy, textured stockings (see MODERN LIVING) to wear in millions of fashionable high boots. They bought family pool tables, maternity stretch pants, gold-plated bathroom fixtures and electric sheet and mattress covers (for those...