Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard-Radcliffe Young Democrats will manage Edward J. McCormack Jr.'s campaign for the Massachusetts governorship in the western half of Cambridge...
...prices of coal, steel, gas and fuel oil have been kept far below cost in order to forge a heavy industrial base. Now that Russia can afford to ogle the age of affluence, it needs not rigid central planning but the flexibility of a market economy using such Western techniques as profits to measure performance and buyers' wants to dictate output. Kosygin has promised to switch all Russian enterprise away from rigid central planning by 1968. Already 673 firms employing some 2,000,000 workers have made the changeover, with so far a notable improvement in performance. But until...
Obeying orders, Chinese diplomats have put aside Western suits for Mao-type tunics. The wife of the ambassador to Morocco has just returned from Peking with the new look for diplomats' wives - short bobbed hair and pantaloons. Embassy libraries have been stripped of non-Mao books. The Red Chinese embassy in Bern has put away such art treasures as the horse statuette from the Tang period, which once was proudly shown to Swiss visitors as a masterpiece of Chinese culture. In the trade exposition in Algiers, guests now are confronted with patriotic placards: "Long live the Great Proletarian Cultural...
...Pennsylvania and Central's request to merge, has ordered that the bigger line continue current freight interchanges with the smaller railroads in order to guarantee their revenues. The three small roads are destined to eventually end up in a second merger that will link them with the Norfolk & Western and C. & O.-B. & O. in a system as big as the Penn Central. The suspicion is that the smaller railroads, which do not oppose the Penn Central merger, are actually maneuvering to get better terms in the merger of the remaining lines. So thought the court's majority...
...others: Boston & Maine, Delaware & Hudson, Reading, Central of New Jersey, Western Maryland, Chesapeake & Ohio-Baltimore & Ohio, and Norfolk & Western...