Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presidential campaign has been one of the most disappointing ever. It was going to be a confrontation between opposing philosophies; it turned out to be a wrestling match be tween volatile personalities. It was go ing to prove the vital difference be tween two strong political parties; it has merely shown that one, the G.O.P., is in need of great repair. It was going to pit liberal against conservative; but Lyndon Johnson has stated very few liberal tenets, and many an American conservative now doubts that Barry Goldwater really speaks his language. It was not going...
...modern airplane pilot is assaulted by vital information. His cabin is lined with instruments competing for his eyes' attention; into his ears stream insistent voices and electronic signals. As if all this were not enough, the pilot may soon be expected to react to communications coming through his skin. Far from being an added distraction, says Psychology Professor Frank A. Geldard of Princeton's Cutaneous Communications Laboratory, skin signals sent out by small electrical vibrators buzzing at the rate of 60 cycles per second, will take some of the burden off the pilot's saturated eyes...
...advertising outlets, the city's merchants have merely increased their ad budgets in the suburban press. Department-store sales for August-September are up by 15% over the same months a year ago. Allied Theaters, an association of movie houses, which might once have regarded newspaper ads as vital crowd-collectors, reported its best summer...
Meetings like this one show that reaching the people through local organizations is still as vital to political candidates as it was thirty years ago, and that no one knows this fact better than the scrappy Democratic Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate...
...when contrasted with his general apathy toward economic matters. Finally, Bellotti has great faith that future economic growth will fill the treasury's coffers without increased tax revenues. Regrettably, he fails to explain why industry will flock to a state with astronomical property taxes or how, if these now vital taxes are cut, the state will keep operating. For, under state law, a planned deficit is illegal...