Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...changes involved large expenditures; few other colleges enjoyed the benefits of a Harkness, Burr, or Widener, or of an $82.5 million Program. But the material changes brought by the Program--Quincy and Leverett, a Le Corbusier Design Center on stilts, a Health Center--are only ancillary to education. Many vital parts of the College, such as the Library, gained little from the drive, perhaps since graduates prefer brick and tower to book and teacher...
FOREIGN POLICY. Summing up the Eisenhower era, New York Timesman James Reston last week noted that "nothing has been settled, but nothing vital to the free world has been lost." The fact that nothing vital was lost is a good answer to most of Ike's critics, including Reston. Peace without retreat was indeed achieved and maintained by the Eisenhower Administration. But President Eisenhower failed to place his vast personal and political prestige behind a realistic effort to promote throughout the world the rule of law, which remains the best and most neglected chance for establishing the "peace with...
Perhaps most of all, Dwight Eisenhower during his two terms in office failed to recognize the vital importance of day-by-day politics in converting deeply felt governmental principle into reality. "The President," a White House aide once said, "hates and despises cheap political maneuvers." So he did-and so he should have. But Ike often carried his feelings so far as to remain above the political battles that are the fabric of positive governmental action. The Democratic comeback in Congress in 1954 and the Democratic landslide in the 1958 elections were among the results of his neglect of practical...
...been a trying, ticklish business. But by December 1957, TT4 had its legs and its massive triangular platform in place. Powerful radars were installed, and eight officers and 65 enlisted men moved into its cramped quarters. Along with two other towers (TT1 was never built), TT4 became a vital part of the U.S. early warning system against air attack...
...dangerous reefs at the river's mouth and named the mighty stream after his ship. John Boit, fifth mate of the Columbia, wrote prophetically that "This River in my opinion, wou'd be a fine place for to sett up a Factory." The Columbia became a vital artery of the region's fur trade, and then of the salmon-canning and lumber industries, but only in the 1930s, with the construction of a series of big power dams on the Columbia, beginning with Grand Coulee, did men really begin to tap the Northwest's great industrial...