Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Western Union Telegraph...
...European security conference to disband the Continent's military pacts, are looking next door again with renewed interest. While the Viet Nam war persists, they foresee little hope for enlarged trade or other accords with the U.S. Instead, they seem ready to make new overtures to Western Europe, with its increasingly sophisticated technology. Moreover, with the U.S. preoccupied elsewhere, and with some Europeans wary of U.S. influence in their countries, Moscow may now feel that it has an outside chance to impose its own political formulas on the Continent...
...East German government as an independent sovereign state and to establish normal diplomatic relations. In fact, Abrasimov stressed that Moscow regards West Germany's attitude toward East Germany as the acid test for any future dialogue between the Soviet Union and Bonn. Intimating that Bonn's three Western allies lack both effective means and the political will to enforce civilian access to Berlin, he warned that the West Germans would be rendered isolated and helpless unless Bonn recognizes East Germany...
...encourage investment in the city and arrange for more air travel to and from it. Meanwhile, West Germany's NATO allies agreed to ban many East German businessmen and officials from their countries and to levy a $5 fee on travel documents for other East Germans visiting Western Europe. The steps were mild enough, but they were all the West seemed prepared to do for now to counter the new threat to the continued well-being of its vital and symbolic outpost...
Joint Account. As superfamilies go, the Mellons are remarkably unknown to the public. Thomas Mellon, the paterfamilias, worked his way to a law degree at the Western University of Pennsylvania (now the University of Pittsburgh) by doing odd jobs and tutoring less apt students. Soon after hanging out his shingle, he concluded that there was more money to be made in investment than in litigation. In 1870, he opened his own bank, T. Mellon & Sons. Tall, thin and austere as a Grant Wood painting, he wore high starched collars when lesser men had long since moved to sack suits...