Word: vitalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their fight for the news, reporters have to battle a growing attitude on the part of state and local officers that public business is none of the public's business (TIME, May 5 et seq.). Last week North Carolina newsmen lost a round. When a vital Appropriations subcommittee, disregarding state law, denied them access to its budget hearings, capital reporters staged a sitdown in the hearing room...
...Arabs. Half an hour after the vote, the Bonn government announced resumption of economic talks with Egypt, and added that a team of German engineers had just arrived in Cairo to survey the possibility of building the world's largest power and irrigation dam on the Nile. Vital statistics: a dam. 42 miles long, to cost $286 million and to take 10 to 15 years to build, which would increase Egypt's arable land by 40%, help solve its water problem for 200 years...
...often the insights are marred by Viereck's sense that he alone has seen the light. His sense of possession in the "the new conservatism" is so blatant that one might forget that Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., had been over much of the same ground in his more-convincing "The Vital Center." There is also the feeling that this book is at least two years too late, that first Czechoslovakia and then Korea aroused almost all American intellectuals from their long flirtation with popular frontism. Yet, if there have been more convincing books about that infatuation, there have been few more...
...Last week the Eisenhower Administration's sixth decontrol order left the U.S. economy free of wage and consumer controls for the first time since the post-Korea freeze of January 1951. The latest order freed coffee, beer, home-heating oil, soybeans, animal feeds-everything except some nonconsumer products vital to defense: sulphur and sulphur compounds, iron and steel, scarce alloy metals, metal cans, machine tools. A few predictable price rises followed, but they barely rippled overall price indexes, which have been steady since the Administration began its "orderly decontrol" six weeks...
Some things are more important than rewriting history for the benefit of future political campaigns. One of them is sending ambassadors to vital points of the world with the confidence of the country in back of them. It is unfortunate for the country that the little men attacking Bohlen on the floor of the Senate today do not realize this...