Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conveniences as sewers, electricity and refrigeration. Once a section of the road is completed, local farmers are able to trade more easily with neighboring villages and get their products out to bigger urban markets. Eventually, Belaunde hopes to relocate almost 1,000,000 peasants from the more heavily populated western regions of Peru to the less populated road areas...
...with the death of Pius XII, and his conservative theology and sometimes rigid ways set him apart somewhat from the new church. Yet he enjoyed his greatest triumph when he played host to Pope Paul VI in 1965-the first time that any Pope had set foot in the Western Hemisphere. The cardinal had grown feeble in recent years, but he kept up his round of appearances at dinners and parades. It was appropriate that just a few hours before he died he had stopped in at two dinners at the Waldorf-Astoria, including one to raise funds for Spanish...
...American cinema an epic sense of the nation's history. Orson Welles' Citizen Kane was another watershed film, with its stunning use of deep-focus photography and its merciless character analysis of that special U.S. phenomenon, the self-made mogul. John Ford's Stagecoach brought the western up from the dwarfed adolescence of cowboy-and-Injun adventures to the maturity and stature of a legend. Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen's Singin' in the Rain proved again the ingenuity of U.S. moviemakers to bring fresh style to the format of musical comedy, which, like jazz...
British press laws are among the most stringent in the Western world and newsmen are properly chary of them. Truth is never a defense. Even so, the London Sunday Times was not wary enough when it ran a picture caption descnbmg Michael Abdul Malik, a Black Muslim indicted for inciting race hatred, as a "brothel keeper, procurer and property racketeer." That was the truth but it revealed Malik's record before he came to trial-a violation of the law. Times Editor Harold Evans was haled into court on contempt charges...
...elements that frightened the ICC when it first considered and turned down by a 6-to-5 vote a merger of lines that railroad men refer to as "The Northerns." The Government feared that the G.N.P. & B. would hurt competitors, notably the Milwaukee Road and the Chicago & North Western. Those two roads, which are also intent on merging, withdrew their opposition to the G.N.P. & B. after the Milwaukee was allowed access to such cities as Billings, Mont., and Portland, Ore. and to Canadian points that had all previously been terminals only of The Northerns. Railroad unions withdrew their opposition after...