Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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British Author Anthony Sampson, who dissected his own country seven years ago, in Anatomy of Britain, has inspected this platonic marriage in an other volume, The New Europeans. Unless radical changes of attitude take place, Sampson believes, European integration has reached its high-water mark. Says he: "Western Europe, shorn of overseas commitments and empires and protected by the American umbrella [of ICBMs] is a continent without a cause. In this situation, its components are very likely to reassert themselves...
...important role as a principal communications link for Chinese agents, and Liao's contributions on this aspect are expected to be spellbinding. The net effect of Liao's defection has been to jeopardize a large proportion of China's espionage agents and their various operations in Western Europe...
...that whatever the Vatican says must be true." As for himself, he said, "I am giving up proving my orthodoxy to the Vatican. I have, now, no further desire to do so." Though loyal to basic church doctrine, and to the church's role as a caretaker of Western civilization, Illich is convinced that social reform in Latin America must come from outside the church. Consequently, he will remain at Cuernavaca -even though that means continuing in a lay status while observing the celibacy of a priest...
Such incidents abound, lively as rab bits, in Fetishism: Pets and Their People in the Western World (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; $5.95). Author Kath leen Szasz tells of the great Dane that came to its owner's wedding in top hat and, of course, tails; of the New York City dog whose owner listed him in the phone book, "in case his friends want ed to telephone him"; of the pair of Saint Bernards that follow their master everywhere - in their own chauffeured station wagon. But there is little glee in the telling. Author Szasz, 56, a Hungarian-born translator...
Masked Men. Decals on doors warning of cameras are ineffective, says Ronald A. Swanson, vice president of California's First Western Bank and Trust Co., because "amateurs just don't know enough to recognize a deterrent." Even if they do, today's bank robbers are far more sophisticated than Bonnie and Clyde. Although retired Boston Bank Robber Teddy Green cheerfully calls cameras "the best weapons the banks have," bankers complain that robbers are too often disguised with ski masks, wigs, dark glasses or turned-up turtleneck sweaters. Officers are also loath to adopt extreme precautions. One that...