Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days of raids, Navy and Air Force jets pounded away at the Communists' vital northeast railway that connects Hanoi with Nanning in China's Kwangsi province. Severing the single-line track repeatedly within the 30-mile zone, the planes knocked out the major rail-highway bridge and one of its two bypasses at Lang Son, a dozen miles from the border, and heavily damaged marshalling yards up and down the line. In the first raid, U.S. pilots caught the Vietnamese by surprise, blasted 143 rail cars for the biggest bag yet scored in a single...
Four year programs in the arts, sciences, social sciences, and humanities must still be a vital concern of the university. The tasks of the combined faculties to provide basic studies for all students regardless of the choice of professional specializations must be reemphasized in order to avoid leaving the impression that this reorganization is primarily a way of preparing for professional studies...
...money and new sources of it are vital needs in the improvement of Vietnamese higher education. New construction programs should be based on a concept of centralization which permits and enhances the use of scarce personnel as well as materials. Centralized systems of translation of lectures, new central libraries and text book reproduction are high priority needs for universities. New construction programs should facilitate needed changes in the process of higher education as exemplified in the way that completion of the central facility for the combined Faculty of Arts and Sciences will make it possible for the university system...
Even as a growing group of U.S. Senators complained that many of the most vital military and transportation facilities in North Viet Nam remain untouched, U.S. bombs rained down last week on a hitherto inviolate target: the one-mile Long Bien Bridge. Less than two miles from downtown Hanoi, the French-built bridge carries all the rail and road traffic between the North Vietnamese capital and China. U.S. Thunderchief and Phantom fighter-bombers scored four direct hits on the steel structure, sent a 300-ft. center span-splashing into the Red River. Elsewhere over the North, Air Force fighter-bombers...
Though anti-Semitism has a long and virulent history in Poland, Jews form a vital and powerful segment of the present Polish government. As in other countries in Eastern Europe, the roots of the Polish Communist Party go back to 19th century Jewish-led organizations. And as Europe's Communist parties grew after World War I, so did the influence of the Jews within them. Dur ing World War II and Nazi occupation, many Polish Communist Jews fled to Russia for sanctuary-and many returned with the Red Army to hold high military, secret-police and administrative posts. Thus...