Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cuba are not troops but technicians-and he seemed to take comfort from that fact. But Castro does not need troops; he has all the home-grown gun toters he can use. What he does need, and what he is getting. is the electronics, radar and missile experts so vital to modern warfare...
...result of the Sakhalin overflight, the U.S. is considering such precautionary steps as increasing the U2's navigational gear and limiting flights to good weather to avoid chances of error. But there are no plans to ground the U-2 altogether-its probing flights are considered vital to U.S. security...
Veto Hint. It was the tax credit that threw Democratic liberals together with Republican conservatives against the Administration. Kerr's stand against a move to kill the credit was supported, 52-30, with some vital help from Republican Leader Everett Dirksen (see cover story), who rounded up G.O.P. votes...
...actor. Dirksen therefore hitched his wagon to a political star. He announced for city finance commissioner in 1926 and won. Four years later, he decided to run against Peoria's incumbent Republican Congressman, William E. Hull. One key issue: the importation to the U.S. of blackstrap molasses, a vital question for Pekin's corn-processing and distillery businesses. Ev lost, but on the day after election he began campaigning for the 1932 primaries. He castigated Hull for voting for a bill that would have strengthened the enforcement of the Prohibition Amendment. In whisky-making places like Peoria...
...money each year on research and development. Examples: ∙TRANSISTORS. "Twelve years or so ago, I visited the Bell Telephone Laboratories in New Jersey and saw scientists drawing single crystals of very pure germanium from a molten mass. These very pure crystals were seeded with small quantities of vital impurities and then cut up to form the transistors. Their influence on the development of electronics has been very great. Without them, space science and space travel would hardly have been possible." ∙SUPERCONDUCTORS. "Until very recently, the phenomenon of metals losing their resistance to the passage of electrical current...