Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bitter Indo-China war, the French army had tried everything in the book, from armored columns to fortified posts to mobile units to recruiting local militia. Diem's Vietnamese army vainly followed suit-placing guard details at bridges and factories, leaving garrisons in loyal villages, building watchtowers along vital roads. U.S. officers tried to win the ideological war with technology, coming up with such win-the-war gadgets as electrified barbed wire, special chemicals that were supposed to strip the jungle of foliage, and self-generating electronic guns. Some of the gadgetry even got a thoughtful appraisal from President...
Harvard seemed tense as it took the field for the vital game. Eighteen seconds after the face-off it was a goal behind as Princeton captain Phil Allen slamed a hard shot past goalie Gil Leaf. That was only the beginning...
...doing cover stories on people who at the crucial moment won't talk to us-mostly dictators, Communist or otherwise. This week Contributing Editor Ed Magnuson had the task of writing a cover story on an American inaccessible to us, and to everyone else, as he performed his vital part in one of the week's big news events...
...dust-dry wrangle over the Liberals' parliamentary tactics should provide the stuff of the campaign. Probably not since Canada rejected reciprocity with the U.S. in the election of 1911 ("No truck nor trade with the Yankees!") have more fundamental uncertainties clouded Canada's future-including the vital questions raised by Britain's move to throw in its lot with Europe, a thorny debate over whether Canada should accept U.S. nuclear arms, and the continuing Canadian quandary over the pervasive commercial and cultural influence of the U.S. At home, a basic economic imbalance has slowed Canada...
...University and is appealing to the loyalties of Club alumni who now are in a position to contribute cash. The club estimates that basic costs will come to more than $700 for the 32 by 19 foot log structure. By the time furniture, handsome rugs, an outhouse, and other vital accessories are added, the costs will probably reach...