Word: western
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...western to end all westerns, the film has George Armstrong Custer, Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill among its characters. But they all seem tame compared with the types portrayed by Dustin Hoffman, Martin Balsam and Faye Dunaway. In Little Big Man, from Thomas Berger's picaresque novel, Dustin plays the hero, Jack Crabb, who survives every imaginable peril until the age of 121, which ought to put the makeup men on their mettle. The putty looms large in Balsam's role as well; he plays a sly con artist whose enraged victims relieve him at various times...
...clinical jargon before the 20th century, and is still not fully understood. It is a group of diseases with many different signs and symptoms. "In some of them the only problem is the undue sensitivity of the skin to sunlight," wrote Professor Abe Goldberg of Glasgow's Western Infirmary in 1966. In others, "the normal life of the patient may be shattered by devastating attacks of abdominal pain, paralysis of limbs, and profound mental upset...
...market's decline, down as a group by 37% since the beginning of the year. The drop is accelerating: the index of air stocks fell by a startling 11% in five trading days two weeks ago and again by 6% last week. TWA, Pan American and Western Airlines skipped their second-quarter dividends because of sharply reduced earnings...
...characteristically unsatisfactory close. Where only Pan American, Northwest and United Airlines have competed in the past, eight carriers will now vie for a share of the market. As a result, profits on the Hawaii run are likely to be marginal at best. In anticipation of the award, Western Airlines alone added 35 planes to its fleet, and it blames the delay in the CAB ruling for 31% of the line's $5,100,000 loss during the first five months of 1969. The long-disputed South Pacific route award finally went to American Airlines, which will fly to Australia...
...Communist world, is felt in every corner of the earth. In Europe, businessmen simultaneously worry about competition from Japanese goods and depend on Japanese-built supertankers to move Mideast oil to them despite the 26-month closing of the Suez Canal. In tiny mountain towns of Western Canada, long-unemployed miners are going back to work to dig the coal needed to fill a new $600 million order from Japanese steel mills. Ideologically impartial, Japanese industrialists trade with Peking and Taiwan, cut timber in Siberia and make 70% of the baseball gloves sold in the U.S. Japanese experts are training...