Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Geneva Conference is deadlocked over the vital, complex issue of inspection. The West will sign no treaty renouncing nuclear testing unless inspectors can actually go inside the Soviet Union to discourage cheating. The Kremlin replies that foreigners will never be allowed to prowl around Russian territory. Andrei Gromyko's argument: inspection is unnecessary because the West has modern instruments that can detect blasts thousands of miles away...
...thing, bad weather kept the crews off the water until the 15th, cutting out about two weeks of vital spring practice. Thus Coolidge is already operating under a serious handicap. To make matters worse, the first race against Navy is a week earlier than usual, with the result that he has even less time to put together a workable combination...
...foreign aid requests. Last week, President Kennedy asked Congress to appropriate $4.9 billion for foreign aid in fiscal 1963, the biggest aid request since Dwight Eisenhower's $5.1 billion whopper in 1953. Noting that it is "always open season" on foreign aid, Kennedy insisted that the sum was "vital to the interests of the U.S." and "cannot, I believe, be further reduced." But after such customary formalities, the President made a spirited challenge aimed at softening the blows of the waiting ax, even if it cannot stay them...
...irks the big cities even more is that for years they have borne the heavy burden of state financing as the heaviest payers of taxes, while the state legislatures, dominated by rural representatives, give back such niggardly sums to the cities that they are strapped for funds for such vital functions as education, law enforcement, urban renewal and transportation. Individual and corporate income taxes from Boston give the state of Massachusetts $5,000,000 more than it returns to the city, and state aid granted to other cities and towns frequently includes the dastardly words "except Boston." "Los Angeles," complains...
...Lampoon Tabernacle Choir at Leningrad Stadium. Appalled by the lack of stimulating sounds on the various Boston rock 'n roll outlets, I turned to the 'Poon groves with some eagerness. But my expectations were disappointed. The 'Poon record fails on just two accounts, but they are, sad to say, vital ones: the record isn't funny, and it isn't good rock 'n roll...