Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effect, Johnson has been on the campaign trail ever since he left Washington to start his 17-day, seven-nation swing through Asia. He went to Australia and New Zealand, the Philippines and Thailand, Malaysia and Korea as a Western leader in quest of a solution to the war in Viet Nam. In Viet Nam itself, he went as Commander in Chief to thank his troops for serving "in the front line of a contest as far-reaching and as vital as any we have ever waged." But he also went to Asia as an American politician whose party...
...Moscow said the bloc countries "are pretty tired" of the Viet Nam war, if only because of its mounting cost. In Moscow, he complained, the conferees were pressured into signing a pledge to raise nearly $1 billion in precious hard currencies so that Hanoi could purchase goods in such Western markets as Japan and West Germany...
Major Advance? What, precisely, had Peking wrought? Nothing more than Western intelligence sources had predicted all along: the Chinese have built a short-range nuclear missile. The Chinese bomb last week was a 20-kiloton device, about the same size as the Hiroshima bomb and considerably less powerful than the third Chinese A-bomb (130 kilotons) detonated last May. There was conflicting opinion among Western scientists as to whether or not the bomb had been reduced by its builders to the tiny, rugged component parts needed to carry a big bang in a small warhead. If the bomb was "miniaturized...
...Western intelligence sources last week dismissed the Deane theory as "naive" and insisted that Blake's escape from Wormwood Scrubs was a Soviet-planned breakout, abetted perhaps by London "scarperers" (specialists in prison escapes). Blake, they guessed, was already en route to Moscow-perhaps in a Russian trawler. Even Author John le Carré, whose own character Alec Leamas would have ultimately been more cynical, found the triple-agent theory "romantic nonsense...
...railroads to regain $100 million of motorcar hauling lost to trucks, while saving automakers $200 million. A few rail lines are even making a bid for passengers. Though two of his routes run parallel to new expressways, Chairman Ben Heineman gambled $50 million on modernizing the Chicago and North Western's commuter service-and won. Patronage is now climbing by 5% a year, and commuter profits this year should reach $2,000,000. Some long-haul travelers still prefer stylish comfort to speed. Bookings have risen for the Atlantic Coast Line's Florida Special since...