Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Merely a Fad? As Ford's biggest customer, Jim Moran takes a vital interest in the company's plans-but he is a man of independent mind. He thinks that the trend to luxury compacts, combined with a trend to greater power, may eventually cause the compact to grow right up again into a bigger, more comfortable car. He considers present compacts-including his hot-selling Falcon-transient fads that will probably win not much more than their present (30%) share of the market...
...Monday evening Pierre Salinger told the Women's National Democratic Club that there is "nothing more vital in government than the freest possible flow of information." Two days later it was revealed that the newly-sworn director of the United States Information Agency had attempted (unsuccessfully) to suppress the showing in Britain of a controversial television documentary on the plight of migrant laborers in this country...
After the Administration has gone to such lengths to oppose something like Sullivan's stilts, one can only wonder what it will do on something really important. Even if the defeat of Sullivan's proposal were absolutely vital to Harvard's future, the University still had no business seeking help from its prestigious Washington contacts without first formulating a rational opposition to the office building...
...believe we are agreed that the distribution of rooms is of vital importance because it touches on educational opportunity in college. It is precisely for this reason, and because I do not consider it a luxury item, that in my opinion ability to pay should not be the criterion used in assigning rooms. No room-drawing system can provide better facilities where they do not exist, but neither, may I add, does it worsen the physical situation. I am troubled by the implication in your editorial that those students whose families' financial situation is less favorable are thereby better prepared...
Attraction of attention plays the major part in the efforts of pacificst groups they added. Publicity greatly magnified the vital of activities ranging from missile ground pickets to naval yard "invasion." In fact, the speakers agreed that the "silent treatment" would probably provide the most effective opposition to their program...