Word: westernism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Charge? Perhaps Nikita Khrushchev had never wanted summit talks enough to pay any substantial price for them. But however badly he wanted them, the Western performance last week was likely to encourage him in the belief that he need not pay much of anything at all. Skillfully as they had defended their positions in the first weeks of the conference, Herter and his colleagues had now seriously to consider whether anything short of a Western walkout at Geneva could convince Moscow that it had anything to lose by playing it tough...
...Gaulle's argument has more to it than his mystic yearning for national grandeur. He believes that the Anglo-American nuclear domination of NATO is inducing in Western Europeans a "suicidal" lack of interest in their own defense. Convinced that "French soldiers fight best under the French flag," De Gaulle also opposes the present concept of "integrated" NATO forces, prefers a World War II-style "cooperative alliance," and asks what would become of Western European nations without nuclear weapons if the day came when it did not serve U.S. and British interests to use the nuclear deterrent in local...
...desire to practice ("I hate it"). After four years of nominal service in the Navy, during which he spent most of his time developing driving ranges in the San Diego area, Casper hit the professional circuit, picked up his first check ($33.33) for finishing 30th in the Western Open in 1955. Last year he earned...
...that picture she never came within three feet of acting, either, but The Sheepman, a run-of-the-range western, took her out of saris and put her in Levi's, which did more for her figure. And in The Matchmaker she had a chance to be funny again, as a naive, man-shy milliner, and in Some Came Running, opposite Frank Sinatra, she came close to salvaging a silly story with her portrayal of a pigeontoed, sentimental, small-town trollop. Says Sinatra : "When the idea of casting her came up, I just about fell over, because...
...Stephanie Sachiko, to demonstrate that she shared Steve's love for the Orient. The baby slowed her down not a bit. She made Hot Spell, a good picture but not much of a box-office splash, showed up on the Sheepman set "somewhat trepidatious" for her first western. She was togged in immaculate jeans, spotless cowgirl hat, shiny boots. "I was the only gal in the picture," she says. "Director George Marshall threw a couple of fistfuls of dirt all over my new clothes. In the first minute all of them knocked me down, rolled me in the dirt...