Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thirds of the nation's truck-borne freight. It meant Huntley without Brinkley, at least until the 13-day TV-radio strike was settled. It meant the prospect of a newspaperless New York City for the fourth time in four years and of work stoppages by 12,300 Western Electric workers and 75,000 rubberworkers. Above all, it meant the threat of a nationwide rail strike...
...abuts on the Demilitarized Zone. Hanoi has put three divisions of North Vietnamese regulars (some 35,000 men) into Quang Tri. Together with the local Viet Cong, in the last six months they have made nearly all the roads of the province too dangerous for travel. A Shau, in Western Quang Tri, the Special Forces camp that the Communists overran last March, is being transformed with bulldozers into a major Red base. Only last summer, 10,000 Marines had to be rushed to Quang Tri to fend off a threatened invasion directly across...
...drive to tear up all roots that bind China to Western culture, many top artists and performers are going through the same hell that Ma did. It was reported that Liu Shih-kun, topflight pianist and runner-up to Van Cliburn at the Moscow Tchaikovsky festival in 1958, had his wrists broken by Red Guards. Hung Hsien-nu, Canton's best-known opera singer, was tried by kangaroo courts, had her hair bobbed, and now works sweeping floors. Chou Hsin-fang, star of the Peking opera, and elderly Author Lao She (known in the West for Rickshaw Boy) have...
...some economic difficulties with Communism-but of a quite different character. At the time of the 1955 Austrian State Treaty, it was assigned to the political limbo of everlasting neutrality between East and West. Russia has used the treaty to object to Austria's moves to join Western Europe's Common Market, on which it depends for most of its trade. Last week Austrian Chancellor Josef Klaus decided on some liberalization of his own. Whether or not the Soviet Union likes it, he said, Austria will move to join the Common Market as an associate member. Like many...
...leads, only to run out of gas. The last game was typical. In the first quarter, the Celtics were ahead by eleven points; by half time their margin was down to five-and the final score was Philadelphia 140, Boston 116. The 76ers still had to get past the Western Division's San Francisco Warriors to claim their first N.B.A. title. But many fans and experts argued that the two best teams in pro basketball had already played each other-and there was no question about which was the better...