Word: westernness
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Portugal is Western Europe's poorest nation. Its population numbers under 9,000,000, and its natural resources are scant. Before Salazar came to power, the land was in chronic economic chaos and political disarray: in 161 years it had had 45 governments, some lasting only days. As Premier after 1932, Salazar squashed partisan quarreling with dictatorial measures and brought order to the economy by applying conservative, pre-Keynesian fiscal policies. By the late 1930s, he was flirting openly with fascism. He backed Franco against the Spanish Republicans. While Portugal remained neutral in World War II, Salazar at first...
...WESTERNERS laugh at the benighted superstitions of their Asian and African brothers. How amusing it is to learn that Burmans refuse to wash their hair on Saturdays, that Zambians believe eggs cause sterility, that Chinese voyagers never turn over the fish on their plates for fear of capsizing their ships. In fact, Westerners themselves seem to becoming the most superstitious people the on earth. For all his faith in scientific reason, Western man is so baffled by complex social and economic problems that he is increasingly attracted to irrational solutions-to all kinds of new black magic...
...Right extremists echo the irrational chants of sinister shamans. No one has ever been hurt by tossing salt over his left shoulder; many have felt a vibration of personal peace by crying "Om!" The trouble is that superstitions, like Occam's razor, cut both ways. Before Western man gets any more mystical, perhaps he should distinguish between superstitions that destroy tranquillity and those that enhance it. If he succeeds, the rest of the world will not have to keep its fingers crossed...
...that the spacecraft had not survived its plunge into the earth's atmosphere, Moscow made a dramatic announcement: Zond had splashed down "in a pre-set area of the Indian Ocean," its scientific mission ''fully carried out," and had been picked up by a Soviet ship. Western trackers confirmed the successful reentry, reporting that Zond had parachuted into the water at only 6.8 m.p.h...
Died. Red Foley, 58, who sang his way to the top of the country-and-Western music charts with Chattanooga Shoeshine Boy, Peace in the Valley and others; of pulmonary edema; in Fort Wayne...