Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Earl Long's fate to live and strive in Huey's shadow. It was a striving founded on Earl's passionate conviction that he was twice the man Huey was-and, ironically, he was, save for the vital inability to match Huey's inner fire, his failure to plumb the imagination of Louisianians with Huey's black magic...
Editorial Viewpoints. The editorial pages of Southern newspapers reflect near unanimity on at least one point: the religion issue exists and will continue to bulk large in the 1960 campaign. A few papers, such as the Charleston, S.C. News & Courier, argue that Kennedy's Catholicism is a vital and valid political issue. More typical is the Columbus, Miss. Commercial Dispatch: "It is regrettable that what ought to be at most a relatively minor concern is overshadowing such major issues as foreign aid, economic growth and civil rights...
Mergers are also prompted by the fear of being caught with a single product in an age of rapid technological changeand widespread diversification. "There is a realization now as never before that new products are a vital source of new profits,'1 says Partner Wilson Randle of Booz, Allen & Hamilton, management consultants. "You can get a new product through research and development-or you can go out and buy it. Research and development might take three or four years. A merger can do it overnight." There are also personal reasons for mergers. Example: Chicago's Consolidated Foods recently...
...progressive administrations of many individual states, notably New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Oregon, and a handful of other states. While progress has been made, the reluctance of other states to follow suit, and the inability of these leading states to create truly effective interstate agreements on such vital issues as adequate minimum wages, housing, health safeguards, transportation, child care and education has made federal action essential...
...Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, both of whom are notably devout Christians, and notably not weak leaders. The editors of Christian Century felt bound to offer a rebuttal of their own contributor. "We sympathize with (Martin's respect for competence in politics," they wrote, "but cannot accept his implication that vital faith necessarily constitutes an insuperable obstacle to such competence." The editors insist that though Lincoln was not a churchgoer, he was a devout Christian who "humbly subjected all his judgments and decisions to the will of God." A President's religion, continues the editorial, is very much an issue...