Word: western
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...race war and civil strife had run their course, the General Hospital's morgue was so crowded that bodies were put into plastic bags and hung on ceiling hooks. Government officials, attempting to play down the extent of the disaster, insisted that the death toll was only 104. Western diplomatic sources put the toll closer to 600, with most of the victims Chinese...
...craft. Protected by a heat shield while its descent was slowing, the capsule eventually deployed a parachute and began radioing information about the temperature, pressure and chemical composition of the atmosphere. After 53 minutes of transmission, the capsule's signals abruptly ceased. With no word from the Russians, Western scientists concluded that the intense heat of the lower atmosphere had disabled the transmitters before the capsule crashed. They recalled that in 1967 a similar Russian capsule-Venus 4-had fallen silent after 90 minutes of transmission, just as it was recording a temperature...
Life in California freed Nabokov of the need to write in the bathroom. But he needed all his astonishing powers of concentration and creative effort for the challenge now facing him. "It had taken me some 40 years to invent Russia and Western Europe," he wrote of the problem, "and now I was faced by the task of inventing America...
Venerable and Vulnerable. Heineman, 55, is the self-assured attorney who took over the wheezing Chicago and North Western Railway in 1956 and surprised skeptical industry veterans by turning the company into a moneymaker. Only four years ago, he began spreading into steel, clothing and chemicals, and later formed Northwest Industries, a holding company. Its sales rose impressively from $260 million in 1965 to $701 million...
...nation's needs. Last year the U.S. built just under eight houses and apartments for every 1,000 people compared with 16 per 1,000 during 1950, the peak year. On a per capita basis, U.S. housing output has fallen from world leadership to a level below Western Europe, Japan and Russia...