Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...preliminary report, Taylor did not deal with the single vital question that is haunting the Administration-whether or not the U.S. should send in troops-but he plans to take it up in his final report. As of now, the Administration is opposed to sending G.I.s to fight in the Vietnamese jungle (as is the Vietnamese government), nor does the U.S. have enough trained guerrilla fighters to do the job. In any case, reported Taylor, South Viet Nam needs six months of hard work just to straighten out the country before the U.S. should even seriously consider the question...
...probably agrees with the Economist, but his boss, Selwyn Lloyd. And the Chancellor is a special problem in himself, because he has become a political liability. His approach to planning, his clufsy attempts to impose a wage pause and to throw cold water on arbitration agreements have all drained vital support from his party, the sort of support that even a competent administrator like Mr. Brooke cannot easily restore. Voters at the next election will scrutinize the Exchequer hardest...
Nevertheless, she said yesterday, "this is not a vital issue. Woman students are getting a good education now and still will whether or not the graduate schools are combined...
...hold over France's Algerian population. Since 1947, when they were allowed to enter France freely as full citizens, they have flooded into the country in what French sociologists call "the immigration of hunger." Now 350,000 strong (200,000 in Paris alone), they are a vital segment of the labor force, do most of France's back-breaking labor from road building to stevedoring. They live in slums but earn union-scale wages-dazzling by Arab standards. As a result, they not only support one-fifth of all Algerian families, but bankroll the F.L.N. itself...
...crawled his way through his eleventh month, the White House released some vital statistics on its least conspicuous inhabitant, John F. Kennedy Jr. Weighing in at a "very healthy" 23 Ibs.. John Jr. was already standing up, statesmanlike, in his crib, and had cut seven teeth (four uppers). His disposition, beamed Mother's press aide, Pamela Turnure, was "wonderful"-though a bit too vegetablelike to suit the tempestuous tastes of Sister Caroline...