Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intentions alone that Herter influenced postwar history. After the Truman Administration proposed the broad outlines of the Marshall Plan in June 1947, the Bostonian, then a Republican Congressman, proposed establishment of a House Special Select Committee on Foreign Aid and became its chairman. After two grueling months of surveying Western Europe's plight-Herter had directed the members to leave wives and tuxedos at home-the committee wrote a compelling, detailed report on what was needed to revive the prostrate continent. Above all, it was Herter's support and advocacy, along with Arthur Vandenberg...
...WESTERN Europe is gripped by a growing, almost obsessive fear that it is falling victim to American economic conquest. And that conquest, so the lament goes, is spearheaded by American technology. Armed with technological prowess that European firms cannot match, giant U.S. corporations are winning control over crucial industries. Many European leaders foresee the gloomy prospect of "an underdeveloped continent," dependent upon...
...Much of Western Europe has been seized by a fervor to expand higher education and to reform it along U.S. lines-interdisciplinary cooperation, more full professors, rotating departmental command. Italy's current five-year plan calls for a reorganization of universities, now beset with frequent strikes by students and teaching assistants. Many Europeans hope to emulate what a Common Market Eurocrat calls "the magic American mobility between campus, government and industry...
...city's newspapers and radio stations. In Peking itself, Correspondent Oancia* reported that one night last week gunfire chattered for more than five minutes and that the next morning the inevitable posters appeared, some of them reporting that factory workers had made trouble in the capital's western district. Across China, the Red Guards have met with increasingly stiff resistance in their drive to spread Mao's revolutionary fervor. "One learns how to make a revolution by making it," Mao has said, "just as one learns to swim by swimming." For the Red Guards, the swimming seems...
...would be affected by the merger. The ICC, in unanimously approving the Penn Central, ordered it to continue doing business with smaller railroads and to indemnify them for losses because of the merger. Ultimately, all are likely to find a place in a second big merger between the Norfolk & Western and the C. & O.B. & O. But the smaller lines, notably the Delaware & Hudson, Erie-Lackawanna and Boston & Maine, have taken to the court their vigorous protest about the Penn Central merger...