Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Michigan's Governor George Wilcken Romney, the six-state 8,270-mile western tour he concluded last week should have been a breeze. The territory was generally friendly, the audiences for the most part restricted to fellow Republicans and brother Mormons. No rivals have yet ventured out on delegate-hunting safaris. At this stage, the not-yet-announced candidate for his party's 1968 presidential nomination needed only to make friends and influence local politicians-which Romney did with his usual energy and skill. But there was another chap along, with the same iron grey hair, rugged profile...
...dancers to learn. The music, composed by Modernist Marius Constant, did not even allow them the luxury of discernible rhythms, sometimes consisted only of randomly twanging gongs and thumping drums. It was at times like a dance performed to the sound effects of a shoot-'em-up western. But Nureyev and Fonteyn conquered the unfamiliar idiom, emphasizing in new and exquisite ways the fluid drive and rhythmic power of their artistry...
This group accepts and welcomes the lessening of cold war tensions; it concedes that the likelihood of a massive Soviet military attack across the Western front is less than it ever was. But it looks to a shift of Soviet-efforts to gain advantage on the politival and economic front, and it calls for renewed United States efforts on those fronts, jockeying for position vis-a-vis the Russians with our European friends and allies...
...team, ranked fifth in the East, will compete Thursday through Saturday at the NCAA Championships at Sugarloaf, Maine, where it will meet the top four Eastern teams and the top five Western teams...
...inflationary pressures that still exist, Western Europe's economy is more troubled by recessionary tugs. Whether the Continent's economic picture improves in 1967, says Common Market Vice President Robert Marjolin, depends almost entirely on "how business shapes up in Germany." To stimulate the economy, Bonn's Bundesbank last month lowered the country's bank rate from 5% to 4½%, last week reduced it to a flat 4%. Though he welcomes such stimulants as "the first signs of a change in the economic trend," West German Economics Minister Karl Schiller cautiously adds that "there...