Word: westernism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of Formosa's 10 million population are clustered along the island's western coastal plains, in the shadow of mountain ranges from which streams fall precipitously and fan out through dike-guarded channels. The rains started first in the north. Later, in the central part of the island, a record 40 inches of rain fell onto the rocky hills, then raced down in torrents that carried tumbling rocks the size of pumpkins along with them to batter dikes on the plain below. Changhua, a city of 70,000 people, was inundated. At one village near...
...another era, intervention to protect national interests was accepted international practice, and the U.S. (having in the Monroe Doctrine forbidden Europe from intervening in the Western Hemisphere) used the doctrine at San Juan Hill, on the Isthmus of Panama, and in several other Caribbean countries where U.S. property and business were threatened. Then, bowing to Latin American opinion and cries of "dollar diplomacy," the U.S., under Coolidge, Hoover and Roosevelt, abandoned intervention, first in practice (the troops were withdrawn from three countries) and then in principle (the U.S. signed the 1936 nonintervention agreement of Buenos Aires). Today the principle...
Almost unrecognizable in kaffiyeh and dark glasses, the Aga Khan, 22, customarily a Western-attired fashion plate, sped to the airport in Nice, met a beautiful English visitor, Tracy Pelissier, 19, stepdaughter of famed British Moviemaker Sir Carol (Our Man in Havana) Reed. Then they limousined to the Cannes villa of the Aga's father, Prince Aly Khan, where Tracy will loll in the Riviera sunshine and be subjected to the routine flurry of rumors that she will become her handsome host's begum...
Master & Peasant. Born and raised on a western Pennsylvania farm, Oliver sang in the choir at Geneva College ('43) and became vaguely aware that he had "some sort of a voice." But aside from a short stay at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music after his World War II service (Navy gunnery officer), he did not do much about it. Instead, he set out to make his mark in business. Says Oliver: "I never had much taste for living in a garret. And I guess, too, that I've still got the cautious instincts of a peasant...
...difference that could be seen in little things-the nervous eagerness with which the director of the Reds' reception center greeted new arrivals, his small embarrassment at having to give them 30 marks' pocket money, the East Germans' skittishness at the approach of a Western newsman. Both East and West felt the urgency of the widening gap and tried to bridge it with words; white-haired Kirchentag President Reinhold von Thadden-Trieglaff, 68, of West Germany, spoke awkwardly in his opening speech of "the very special naturalness with which we greet our brothers...