Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Organized labor still has great strength. It holds a vast and vital place, bloodily won, in the American system. Yet for an abundance of reasons-aging leadership, corruption, and inability to keep pace with technological progress, above all the fact that it has often subordinated public welfare to private gain-labor is doing what it can least afford. It is losing public support to a critical degree...
...Little More Tolerance. Another suggested solution is that Congress pass legislation placing restrictions on the right to strike. This, too, could be dangerous. For effective unionism is vital to the U.S. free enterprise system, and the strike is labor's ultimate weapon. "The public," says Chicago's Shultz, "needs a little more tolerance for strikes, for the abrasive aspects of the situation. Some strikes are necessary for a healthy economic system...
...that both have the fighting qualities it will take to beat Jack Kennedy. Says she: "They may disagree on some things, but they do it openly. And more important, they agree on the necessity to firm up the backbone of the U.S.-and right now there is nothing more vital to the people of America than this...
...Washington Project was created because radical student leaders thought "something had to be done" to influence what they conceive to be a spiralling arms race that can lead to world-wide devastation. At the least they fear a perpetual war economy diverting vital public funds from hospitals to missiles. But if the students were disappointed after the Washington affair they were not disillusioned. Something still had to be done, and the Hughes campaign provided the perfect opportunity to reach the still unenlightened masses...
...vital bargaining point of State political leaders seeking to lure industry has been the pool of scientific talent represented by Harvard and M.I.T...