Word: westernization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CHINA IS A MONUMENTAL MESS. This was the verdict of one Western diplomat last week as representatives of 87 countries, including Nikita Khrushchev, flew into Peking to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Communist rule. Not far from Nikita's side was a shadowy figure named Liu Shao-chi-the sort of human blur most people overlook. But nobody should overlook Liu. who is the man in charge of the organization charged with holding Red China together. See FOREIGN NEWS'S COVER...
...delegate votes at the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles next July, a total of 271, more than a third of the 761 needed to nominate, will come from the 13 Western states. Any candidate able to win the support of the Western states in a bloc will thus have a running start on the field, and last week California's Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown made just such a bid. He failed...
...scene of Brown's effort was the Western Governors' Conference at Idaho's handsome Sun Valley Lodge. Briefed by political scouts back from neighboring statehouses, Brown hustled into Sun Valley, went to work on the other arriving Democratic Governors: Washington's Albert Rosellini, Nevada's Grant Sawyer, New Mexico's John Burroughs and Colorado's Stephen L. R. McNichols. They should, Brown urged, all "zero in" on a regional favorite for President; it was well understood that he had in mind zeroing in on none other than California's Pat Brown...
Forms & Fever. Fortunately, the U.S. is not often hurt by big, Asian-style outbreaks. The principal domestic forms-Western equine and St. Louis encephalitis -are usually more benign than their Oriental cousins. During an epidemic of Western equine in Utah last year, 47 cases were reported, but only one victim died. Eastern equine is more virulent: those who survive the brain congestion and the raging temperatures (up to 110° before death) often suffer some mental impairment or partial paralysis. The one mitigating factor is that the disease, though common among animals in the eastern U.S., Canada and South America...
...Fred Wieck, an ex-Henry Regnery Co. executive, who took over an unimpressive setup in 1954 and built it into a $1,000,000 operation noted for stunning jacket designs. Last winter Wieck published the first Russian-language edition of Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago in the Western Hemisphere and sold an amazing 15,000 copies, is following this week with a collection of Pasternak's poems in English that is likely to sell even better. Says Publisher Wieck: "There isn't a strand of ivy on our building...