Word: astir
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
TIME's cover story last Feb. 12 on the influential but little-known Soviet economics professor, Evsei Liberman, revealed that the winds of economic change were astir in the land of the Soviets-and that they were blowing from the West. The Russians predictably denied that they were edging toward that horrid condition of affairs called capitalism, and Liberman himself fired off a two-page cable (TIME LETTERS, March 5), spelling out his views...
Resuming Arms. At week's end New Delhi was astir with reports of Red Chinese troop movements, not only on the Sikkim border but far to the west in Ladakh as well. In Washington, Indian Ambassador B. K. Nehru strode into Secretary of State Dean Rusk's office to ask for resumption of U.S. arms shipments...
...under the slothful surface, India is astir with powerful new social and economic forces. The nation does not now possess the know-how or the energy to raise itself from poverty and despair. To that extent, India's lethargy is a valuable check against firebrand revolutionaries who would hope to trade on Indian misery with offers of Marxist panaceas. Shastri's emphasis on agriculture is only a stop-gap measure, certainly not the ultimate answer to India's woes. Once it has learned to feed itself, it can then move slowly, sanely toward industrial self-sufficiency...
...belatedly but unmistakably, Brazil's forgotten country is astir with new activity and new hope...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19--This jaded city is all astir over Lyndon Johnson's inaugural at noon today. Washington has never witnessed so expensive an inaugural--$2.1 million--nor one so cold. The huge crowd lining the streets to watch the parade will have to stand in 20-degree weather if the official forecast proves accurate...