Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early so that he could see the smokestack flame in the right light. He found the pointing pose highly appropriate for Premier Bennett, as he considered his subject "a gesticulating man." Studying the painting in the light of the hitherto untold story of bustling growth and wealth in Western Canada, one office caption writer suggested that the title might have been "This way to the bank...
...Line-Up. In such a showdown, Nasser could count on Algeria, Syria, Iraq and Sallal's part of Yemen-all more or less socialist, Soviet-armed regimes. Feisal would have on his side Western-equipped Jordan, Bahrain, the tiny sheikdoms of the Persian Gulf, and perhaps Morocco, Tunisia and Kuwait. Non-Arab Iran, whose Shah despises Nasser, would probably aid Feisal enthusiastically. Anxious to remain neutral are Lebanon, Libya and the Sudan. But it may never come to a showdown. The meeting around a fire...
Most Yugoslavs can travel freely to Western nations; President Tito himself has severely handcuffed the once-dread ed secret-police apparatus; and the re gime is openly encouraging a measure of economic and local political compe tition. But there are still some limits to liberalization, as Writer Mihajlo Mihajlov discovered last week. A Yugo slav court sentenced Mihajlov to ten months in jail for writing uncompli mentary things about the way Tito runs his country...
...year minus three weeks vacation); there has been talk of sending people to the Peace Corps or to teach public school. No one, however, has suggested that we follow Ethiopia's example and demand that every candidate for a University degree spend two years serving the state -- though Western Michigan College is experimenting with a plan which will enable students to count two years in a Peace Corps-like organization as the equivalent of one year in college...
...authored a plan for intra-alliance nuclear sharing that differed sharply in conception from the MLF plan backed by Ball. Most important, he must cope with the problems of French military independence, West Germany's nuclear role, and the size and significance of U.S. troop commitments in Western Europe. He will also have to deal with America's balance of payments deficit, France's inclination to cash in dollars for gold, and the related problem of Britain's unstable pound. Rostow is an open supporter of the Administration's policy in Vietnam...