Word: westernization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bolivia, young skiers jammed into the two lodges at the three-mile-high Chacaltaya ski area. But nowhere was the Andes ski boom growing faster than in Chile, as the crowds bundled aboard trains, buses, open trucks and even motor scooters, bound for the ski towns that dot the western Andes for 700 miles. By season's end an estimated 17,000 skiers will have made the trip up and down the snow-buried Andes and spent millions along...
...Joseph Hromadka, 70, wartime lecturer at Princeton, dean of Prague's Communist-controlled Amos Comenius Theological Faculty, a wheel in the World Council of Churches and a vice president of the Presbyterian Alliance. Hromadka has attended every postwar ecumenical congress, has raised serious problems about how Western Christians are to regard their brethren in Iron Curtain countries...
...been made the hero of a sort of plainsman's festival of letters-a collection of his occasional essays (An Honest Preface; Houghton Mifflin; $3.75), trimmed with the personal tributes of his Texas friends. Says his old friend and cultural sparring partner, J. Frank Dobie, the famed Western folklorist (The Mustangs, The Voice of the Coyote): "Webb is one historian who never lets the evidence stand in the way of the truth-as he sees...
...grey-thatched driver was dressed to match. Inside the lot, he braked to a stop, grabbed an armful of fancy jeans, vests and jackets from the back seat, and bustled busily into the dressing room of TV's Scott (Slingshot Slade) Brady. "Nudie," self-made giant of the western clothing trade, was merely delivering the goods...
Peanut Eater. The personal attention he gives his customers helps Nudie gross $300,000 a year with his high-class ranch wear. Not only does he dress 80% of all movie and TV western stars; he also rakes in three-quarters of the other tailor-made western clothing business in the U.S. Says he: "This is a far cry from P.S. 156 in Brooklyn." It is so far that Nudie, now 56, is the only person who remembers his real name. Whatever it is, he guards it fanatically. He is Nudie, even on his checks...