Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years ago, when brow-shrouding male tresses bloomed all over the classroom, they drew down a withering fire from the academic Establishment. Today most of the hirsute scholars are back at their desks, tolerated if not entirely approved. "We ignore it," says C. W. McDonald, dean of men at Western Washington State College. "We do absolutely nothing against long hair even if it's down to their heels...
Desperate Shortage. Today the college's spacious 127-acre Western campus (20 minutes from San Francisco by freeway) also contains glossy ultramodern buildings, and its 770 students are broadly drawn from 45 states and 24 countries; nearly a fourth of the girls get financial help to meet the $3,000 annual charges. No longer interested in a protective, genteel education, Mills girls plunge eagerly into such unsheltered activities as tutoring Negro youngsters in Oakland and studying city government by taking part-time municipal jobs. Blessed with a legion of loyal and generous alumnae, Mills has nearly doubled faculty salaries...
...ecumenical event that looks to the future rather than the past. Across the world, this year's celebration-marking the 450th anniversary of Martin Luther's posting of his 95 theses at Wittenberg-is being shared in by Catholics as well as Protestants. For both branches of Western Christianity, the great Reformer is increasingly seen not as a symbol of past schism but as a potential focus for unity to come. "Rapprochement between Catholic and Protestant churches can come," says Lutheran Theologian Jürgen Winterhager of Berlin, "not despite but through the Reformation...
...chronic economic ills. Last year Finland's gross national product was $8.6 billion, showing a mere 2.2% increase over the previous year, and well down from the average 5% growth rate during 1960-65. More than a fifth of the national income comes from exports, mostly to Western Europe. Slackening economies, particularly in Great Britain and West Germany, have cut Finland's export earnings. Meanwhile despite restrictive government policies and tight credit, imports remain high and the trade gap is running at $220 million for the second consecutive year. Unemployment has gone up (2.5% of the work force...
...important "if" to the order. The Penn Central merger has so far been vigorously opposed by other railroads that would be affected, and the judges ruled that three of them-the Erie Lackawanna, the Boston & Maine, and the Delaware & Hudson-should be given immediate homes in the Norfolk & Western. The "if" was that the Norfolk & Western, which wants to hold off acquisition of the three until it has merged with the C. & O.-B. & O., has 15 days to appeal to the Supreme Court. N. & W. President Herman Pevler was noncommittal last week, but his railroad will probably appeal...