Word: imperiale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Americans, summoned by Churchill to discharge their "awe-inspiring accountability to the future," heeded and acted. Perhaps no other man on earth could have commanded such a response. In years to come, the U.S. unquestioningly supported NATO, the Marshall Plan, and a succession of international responsibilities that would have been...
The U.S., of course, is not really trying to do exactly that. It is trying to maintain order-not necessarily its own order-in vast areas of the globe. In this sense it faces an infinitely harder task than any imperial power because it cannot, and does not want to...
Imperial Japan's ancient ideal was one family under one roof. Today's typical Japanese family still lives that way-but often the roof covers only a single room. More than three-fourths of Tokyo's private rental units are one-room warrens, and both the financial...
Sing Along with Gongs. In villages threatened by the advancing Viet Cong, Addiss and Crofut had to sing to a constantly shifting audience, a kind of music to flee by. The duo played in the imperial city of Hue and raised $1,400 for the nearly 1,000,000 homeless...
Labor also suffered a new blow to its battered chin when Dr. Richard Beeching, the able, cost-conscious chairman of the British Railways Board, resigned abruptly in a dispute over how to run the country's deficit-plagued nationalized railroads (1963 losses: $340 million). A trained physicist with a...