Word: west
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that France and Germany are so interlocked by trade agreements and political alliance, the Saar and the other "lost provinces" have ceased to be war-making issues. Politically, the Saar was reunited with West Germany in 1957. and in the further flowering of European friendship it was inevitable that economic integration, scheduled for 1960, should be advanced to an earlier date. For weeks the talk in the Saar's beerhalls has been of Der Tag X-the day the customs barriers between the Saar and Germany would be pulled down and moved west to the Saar's French...
...social benefits they had enjoyed under the French welfare state. Though it could be argued that lower German prices would help compensate them, some wage earners muttered that their much-prized German nationality may cost them as much as 20% of their pay after taxes. Such complaints led some West German newspapers, in commenting on the "Little Reunification" with the Saar, to ask soberly whether 17 million East Germans might one day be similarly reluctant to give up Communist welfare privileges for a free economy with higher living standards but lacking some state social security benefits. The difference is that...
...Last week, as the days drew nearer to the November elections, two left-wing parties in Premier David Ben-Gurion's four-party coalition found a really emotion-charged issue to fight about: Israel's deal to sell $3,300,000 worth of grenade launchers to West Germany (TIME, July 6). This is a lively subject in a nation that remembers Nazi concentration camps and frowns on playing Wagner on the radio...
...these censorious activities the West tends to get blamed for what it introduced and what it did not. How long the reforming move will last in Southeast Asia, no one knows. But if Hula-Hoops and B-girls are easily legislated against, wiping out opium will come harder, for hundreds of thousands of addicts remain whose cure will take time and money...
...West Point's All-American fullback, Air Force Major Felix ("Doc") Blanchard, 34, got an official citation for not fumbling in a tight spot. Piloting a Super Sabre jet last month in England, Blanchard suddenly found his aircraft on fire. He could have simply hit the silk-but his plane might have plunged into a heavily populated area. Doc Blanchard made his choice, rode his winged torch down to a happy landing. Said an Air Forceman: "One of the finest flying jobs I ever...