Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...company had been on the verge of giving their workers raises and cost-of-living increases. Furthermore, the unions were threatening to ignore the freeze and press for higher wages. These pressures led Wilson reluctantly to impose on Britain the severest economic control ever exercised during peacetime in a Western nation...
...indeed: Northern delegates, some of whom had to be restrained from dashing home during the rioting, were dead set against the notion of splitting the North into several separate regions; Easterners were threatening to secede from the nation, and arguing among themselves over internal secession from the region; Western leaders were despondent; even the tiny Mid-West-originally the only insistent voice in favor of federation-was getting cold feet. Any hopes of quick consensus were fading fast, and with the resumption of rioting, the entire fabric of nationhood was fading as well...
...Billy Graham's huge summer crusade did not so much as rattle a window in Lambeth Palace, residence of the Church of England's Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Michael Ramsey, 61. Stepping off a plane in Vancouver, B.C., during a swing of his own through western Canada, Ramsey conceded that Billy may have "won some converts" but insisted that "we don't need his type of evangelism in England." In these perilous times, he continued, England "needs a thoughtful approach to religion, not bursts of emotionalism." Mused Billy, in thoughtful reply: "Interesting, in view...
...singles, 1,615 albums) to 10,662 (7,116 singles, 3,546 albums). Indicative of the nation's taste in music is the breakdown of albums recorded in 1965: pop music, 27% ; rock 'n' roll, 20% ; classical, 19% ; jazz, 9% ; country and western, 7% ; and folk, 4%. The remaining 14% is miscellaneous (religious, children...
Divorced. By Forbes Burnham, 43, Prime Minister of Guyana (formerly British Guiana), newest nation in the Western Hemisphere: Sheila Lataste Burnham, 41, a former Trinidad optician; on grounds of desertion (he said that she left him, refused to return); after 15 years of marriage, three children; in Georgetown, Guyana...