Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...engine after 93 sec., but already he was above 100,000 ft. and going 2,756 miles an hour. Coasting higher, he tested eight small rockets in the nose and two in each wing-a main objective of the flight. These form a control system that will be vital at higher altitudes, where conventional controls turn mushy in the thin atmosphere. They worked fine. Descending, he looked out of his tiny window at most of California, part of Oregon and Baja California in Mexico, noting that the horizon wore a white halo and the sky was "a nice, dark blue...
Most disturbing aspect of the demonstration was the frequently expressed demand that the U.S. "get out of the Azores," the mid-Atlantic Portuguese islands on which the U.S. Air Force maintains a vital stepping-stone base. Use of the base is governed by a bilateral agreement due to be renegotiated next year. What bothers some diplomats more is the possibility that Salazar, if pushed far enough, might yank Portugal out of NATO. But in the long run, Portugal is unlikely to desert the Western camp; Salazar needs the West as much as. or more than, the West needs...
Though he lost the title role, Olivier gained by the switch. It is really the title role in name only: in his drama of the medieval King who idolized his chief counselor and then suffered him to be killed, Anouilh ignored too much that was vital in Becket-his great career as Chancellor, his shift from worldling to ascetic, his clashes, as Archbishop of Canterbury, with Henry. If Anouilh's Henry is not quite a full portrait either, it is for an Olivier a fat part-a touch too fat, for it hides Henry's bone structure...
When all the bugs are worked out, the smelting furnace will be the nation's biggest producer of ferrochrome, an ingredient vital to stainless steel. It will be smelting low-grade chrome ore from Africa. The output will go to Universal-Cyclops Steel Corp...
...picture deals with five people who sense but don't actually know where they are. Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Thelma Ritter, Eli Wallach, and Montgomery Clift make the characters vital not only as individuals but for what they represent: dreams that went sour, the lies, the payoff, the human self-destruction, and all that Miller sees in his own country and his own life...