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Word: westernness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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With his garish ties and gaudy boots, Douglas T. Snarr, 35, comes on like a big bad billboard. He is, indeed, the founder and president of Snarr Advertising, Inc., which owns 1,600 outdoor signs in 13 Western states. Yet Doug Snarr has also become a one-man lobby to ban billboards from any rural road built with federal financial help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Highway: How to Remove Billboards | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...became the first African to be elected president of the U.N. General Assembly; of liver disease; in Tunis. A onetime revolutionary who was twice jailed by the French during his country's struggle for freedom, Slim nevertheless ranked as one of Africa's more moderate, pro-Western diplomats. With Tunisia's independence in 1956 he became simultaneously Ambassador to the U.S., Ambassador to Canada and Tunisia's permanent representative to the U.N.; in 1961, by a vote of 96-0, he was elected president of the General Assembly and for the next year labored diligently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 31, 1969 | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...continue to rise partly because the supply of houses and apartments is not adequate. The U.S. has long taken pride in being the best-housed nation in the world, but today-despite its riches and technological power-it has slipped behind the pace of almost every big country in Western Europe in construction per capita (see chart following page). Even the U.S.S.R. puts up more housing than the U.S., though the Soviets' prefabricated apartments are so cramped and shoddy that most would be unrentable to middle-class Americans. George Romney, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, calculates that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: WHY HOUSING COSTS ARE GOING THROUGH THE ROOF | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...plumbing. This not only inhibits architects and engineers from developing cost-cutting innovations (for lack of a big enough market), but often prevents builders from reaping the economies of standardized plans and production. Few other big industrial countries permit such a senseless riot of diversity. Code uniformity has helped Western Europe to pass the U.S. in making use of new technology, including precast concrete panels and high-precision assembly systems. in the construction of tower apartments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: WHY HOUSING COSTS ARE GOING THROUGH THE ROOF | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...notable feature of the American system in comparison to Western European or Communist countries, however, is not how heavy the influence of the established system is, but how much flexibility there is within it. Even though some branches of government and some donors have a narrow definition of their interest, the availability of such support frees up other funds for less popular research areas. A research institution should therefore not be tested by whether it accepts funds that are limited to particular uses, but by the quality of its total product...

Author: By Center FOR International affairs, | Title: In Defense of the CFIA Social Research And the Center | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

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