Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the fact is little understood outside the field of banking and professional economics, the peoples of the Western world owe their rising living standard in large part to the monetary system that now shows increasing signs of fragility. There are at least two separate, but related, troubles. The volume of world trade is rising far more quickly than the global supply of gold. To overcome that gap, the IMF last year devised a sort of "paper gold"-a new international money called "special drawing rights." Use of the SDKs, as they are called, awaits ratification by nations that contribute...
...idea for this program originated with Dr. H. Jack Geiger, 43, a onetime medicine reporter for the International News Service who decided that he could do more for his fellow men by becoming a doctor than by writing about doctors. While studying medicine at Western Reserve University in the mid-1950s, he read about medical centers for the poor that had long existed in Europe. Later he studied what he calls "social medicine" (the concept of illness as an environmental as well as a medical problem) at South Africa's only medical school primarily for blacks, at the University...
...greatest paintings in the Western world," wrote Critic Pierre Schneider. "After the great Christ paintings of the Renaissance, this is the first nonreligious painting of an expiatory personage, a self-sacrifice figure." Adds Critic Andre Chastel, "Gilles has a poetic charm akin to Shakespeare. In fact, every time I look at it, I am reminded of Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream...
...State Supreme Court to rule upon the appeals of Frederick Saterfield and Robert Page Anderson. Both convicted murderers were challenging the constitutionality of the death penalty, and they could hardly have picked a more promising time or place for their plea. Their lawyers could argue with considerable authority that Western society has come to look upon execution as a cruel and unusual form of punishment. And the California court could be expected to listen sympathetically; it has earned a reputation as one of the most liberal in the nation...
...years later, the commission rejected their petition on the ground that the northern combine, involving some of the profit-starved railroad industry's most prosperous carriers, would hurt competition. In particular, the commission expressed the fear that the merged companies would draw traffic away from the Chicago & North Western and the Milwaukee Road. Late last year, the commission reversed itself after the northern lines promised to give valuable track rights to the Milwaukee and mollified labor by agreeing to eliminate 4,511 excess employees by attrition over several years rather than dismissal. The chief executives of the carriers gathered...