Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Grand Coalition, the nine Socialist Ministers (out of 19) were the stars of the government. Socialist Economics Minister Karl Schiller guided West Germany out of its economic slump; Transportation Minister Georg Leber (no relation to Julius) began unclogging Western Germany's Autobahnen by forcing freight off the roads and back onto the deficit-ridden rails. Foreign Minister Brandt conducted an imaginative eastward-looking policy. Meanwhile the Free Democrats were moving away from conservative policies and closer to those of the Socialists. Last March, Socialist and Free Democrat members of the Bundestag joined forces to elect Gustav Heinemann as the first...
Rejection Slip at 15. Daughter of a tool and die designer, she grew up outside of Lockport, a small city in western New York State. In a one-room schoolhouse, Joyce Carol's writer's reflex quickly asserted itself. She cannot recall a time when she was not setting down or thinking about a story. Her first submitted novel -250 pages devoted to a dope addict redeemed by getting a black stallion-was rejected by a New York publisher as too depressing for the 15-year-old market. Joyce Carol quietly accepted the verdict, though...
...Asia, where ancient methods of farming are gradually giving way to more efficient cultivation of high-yield strains of rice and wheat, increased their food pro duction by 5% for the second year in a row. The biggest gains were made by Malaysia (11%) and Thailand (8%). In the Western world, the U.S., Canada, Australia and Western Europe continued to accumulate huge surpluses of vital foodstuffs...
Baldwin to the contrary, great painters throughout the history of Western art have looked at the black man and mirrored him as beautiful. Not many, but some. Seeking them out, Author-Critic Alexander Eliot culled the great collections of Europe and the U.S. to assemble the remarkable gallery that TIME presents on the following pages. All of the pictures are white mirrors, since oil paint was never the Negro's traditional medium: the promise of black Rembrandts lay in other fields. But all of them reflect the unprejudiced eye that saw beauty could appear in any color...
...rising costs, but was prevented from doing so by Charles de Gaulle's insistence that Britain live up to its contract. France's new President Georges Pompidou may be more amenable to the idea. As for the Soviet entry, it is largely an unreal threat; no Western airline could risk relying on Russia for spare parts...