Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Covering the Moscow air show last month, most of the Western press reported that Russia had unveiled six new military aircraft-not a remarkable showing. U.S. and British intelligence made the same estimate. But in 35 pages of text and photos, McGraw Hill's Aviation Week & Space Technology proved them all wrong. The magazine's eagle-eyed reporters had spotted twelve new Soviet planes, some of them comparing favorably with U.S. models. The findings led Editor in Chief Robert B. Hotz to warn that the Soviets are "devoting an increasingly large effort to developing hardware and tactics...
...group called the Free Spirits, even the gypsy airs of the late Django Reinhardt. A dropout from the University of Washington (where he was studying journalism), Coryell believes in embracing all musical styles: "If music has something to say to you -whether it's jazz, country blues, Western or hillbilly, Indian or any other folk music-take it. Never restrict yourself...
Died. Brigadier General William Jefferson Glasgow, 101, West Point's oldest living graduate (class of '91), a Cavalry officer who chased Western outlaws in 1893, landed with the Cuban occupation force during the Spanish-American War in 1898, and rode after Pancho Villa in Mexico in 1916; apparently of a heart attack; in El Paso, Texas...
...John." Last week, as the railroads convened in Chicago to begin working out their master tariff list, even some of the authorized increases seemed likely to be dropped. The Chicago & North Western announced that it will not add on the penny-per-hundred-lbs. increase in grain rates allowed by the ICC; the decision left competing Midwest railroads little choice but to main tain their old rate. Similarly, the Southern Railway said that old rates will remain on the grain hauled in its 100-ton "Big John" hopper cars...
...Although Middle East oil production is near its prewar level, the refineries of Western Europe will continue to feel the pinch for some time to come. Reason: until the Suez Canal is un plugged, oil tankers must take a two-week detour around the Cape of Good Hope. At Rotterdam's Europoort, whose massive refineries get 70% of their oil from the Middle East, companies have dipped into reserves while eagerly awaiting the homeward-bound tankers. "They're out there floating around somewhere," says Theo P. van den Bergh, general manager of Shell Netherlands Refining...