Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since 1946, cold-war disarmament proposals and counterproposals have been presented in an unceasing stream. Last week, at his press conference, President Kennedy reiterated the vital U.S. demand for the "effective inspection, which, of course, must be part of any effective disarmament agreement." But this is precisely the issue on which disarmament negotiations between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. have bogged down countless times in the past-and there is no indication that the Kremlin is ready to give way. The outlook, therefore, for Geneva: more talk about disarmament, but no agreement...
...Nehru's campaign was the vital constituency of North Bombay, where independent Coalition Candidate J.B. Kripalani hoped to unseat Nehru's left-lining Defense Minister Krishna Menon (TIME cover, Feb. 2). Posters hitting at Congress Candidate Menon's soft stand on Red China's border incursions proclaimed: "Patriots vote Kripalani; Communists vote Menon." Through North Bombay's streets snaked a huge Kripalani procession headed by a phalanx of gaily garbed dancers. The demonstrators displayed a giant set of scales in which a full-sized effigy of Kripalani outweighed an image of Menon...
...body against invading microbes or foreign tissue. Once the master cells have been distributed, the thymus seems to have done its main job. In adult life, and even in later childhood, the gland can be removed with little apparent effect. Perhaps it eventually becomes use less, despite its vital early role...
Matsushita nonetheless adheres to a rigid schedule that brings him home only on weekends to his wife Mumeno. But in their 45 years of marriage, she has played a vital part in his business life, accompanying him on factory visits and often doing the final tests on home appliances that Matsushita is about to market. Currently, they live in a company-owned, 27-room Japanese-style home on a country estate between Osaka and Kobe, but will soon move to a six-room house on the same grounds, which is being westernized for comfort...
...bespeaks an attitude that only the scholar is deserving, or even capable, of special instruction. Thus the Department would seem to be seeking out an intellectual elite, ignoring the majority of students, by and large those same non-dogmatically academic students whom Dean Bender sought as a vital element contributing to the College...