Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation, teachers picketed their own schools, forcing hundreds of thousands of children to play hooky (see EDUCATION). Forty-two thousand copper workers in half a dozen states stayed off the job for the ninth week, while a violent walkout of steel truckers in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana interrupted vital steel shipments...
They differed on details but demonstrated a remarkable consensus: prompt imposition of a surtax is vital to curb inflation in an overheating economy, reduce a Government deficit that may hit $29 billion this fiscal year and head off a repetition of the credit squeeze that rocked business...
...Lenins and Mao Tse-tungs started stretching his maxims to fit largely agrarian societies. Then, too, Marx became archaic when it became evident that 1) England, Germany and the other advanced industrial nations had avoided revolution; 2) capitalism, partly in response to Marx's ideas, had showed itself vital enough to change with the times into something that Marx would hardly have recognized; and 3) workers in the West were increasingly sharing in the fruits of capitalist prosperity. Not until recently did Europe's Communists realize that the real husk that must be cracked is that...
Blues, folk, country and western, ragas, psychedelic light and sound effects, swatches of Mahler, jazzlike improvisations-all are spaded into the mulch by such vital and imaginative groups as the Doors, the Grateful Dead, the Jefferson Airplane, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, the Byrds and the new British trio, the Cream. Like the Beatles, most of these groups write their own music and thereby try not only to arrive at their own peculiar mixture of elements, but also to stamp their identity on whatever they...
...back home that there is no stalemate over North Viet Nam. Or warning Ho Chi Minh on the eve of the South Vietnamese elections that a willingness to negotiate should not be mistaken for any weakening of resolve. Whatever the reason, American fighter-bombers ranged up and down the vital railroad links between Hanoi and China last week, dispatching box cars, bridges and marshaling yards with lethal efficiency. Other sorties hit army barracks, antiaircraft emplacements, SAM sites and the Hoa Lac airfield -where the North Vietnamese had rigged up mock MIGs and painted bomb craters on the runways to fool...