Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dollars, at interest rates of between 4% and 6%, whereas less than a third of the money committed under the Alliance for Progress was of this variety. The balance was primarily longterm, low-interest loans, which are far better adapted to the construction of roads, schools, waterworks and other vital projects...
...Kennedys he can lure West in his re-election fight against Richard Nixon. Aft er an overnight stay in Yosemite National Park, the President ignited explosives to break ground for a dam and reservoir in the $500 million San Luis water project in the San Joaquin Valley - a vital link in Brown's plan to meet the multiplying water needs of Southern California...
...Vostok III and Vostok IV abruptly reopened the space race and led some scientists to speculate that Russia intended to put a man on the moon within four years. "Once they have achieved orbital rendezvous," said Kenneth Gatland of the British Inter-Planetary Society, "they have taken the vital step toward lunar flight...
Ultimately, lay hopes for the future rest on the Vatican Council, which has a rare opportunity to promulgate reforms that would give the layman a more vital role in his church. What the laity want, Callahan concludes, is for the clergy to do some soul-searching and, in the context of the Council, to think seriously about how the layman could be used in the service of God. "To even face the problems and needs, much less to find solutions to them, will require much boldness. But it is a boldness not impossible for the Church...
...lectures on the European cultural scene with a survey of modern Italian painting, illustrate; by his own slides. Pozzi pointed out that avant-garde movements have degenerated into academism, and pleaded for an end to manifestoes, nebulous theories of art, and similar modern diseases which encourage supporters of a vital and non-introspective movement...