Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PISTOLS 'N' PETTICOATS (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.). Ann Sheridan stars as Hank Hawks in a new comedy western series about a modern Annie Oakley who can outfight, outshoot and outwit any man west of the Mississippi. Premiere...
...HERO (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). The foible-filled private life of a TV-western idol who's absolutely terrified of horses and allergic to sagebrush, featuring Richard Mulligan...
...Twelve years ago last month, Brigadier General Bernard Schriever went to Inglewood, Calif., to start the Air Force's then-secret Western Development Division, a title roughly as revealing as that of the Manhattan Project, which built the atom bomb. Schriever's mission was to turn the drawing-board concept of a nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile into lethal reality-and fast. Intelligence estimates showed that the Russians had powerful rocket boosters that might enable them to get a commanding weaponry lead over...
...down to frustration. After more than 20 years, he said, the U.N. has yet to agree "on basic principles" for its prime mission of peacekeeping. It has also failed, he noted, to become "universal," meaning that Red China should be seated. U Thant felt, too, that the U.S. and Western Europe were not doing enough to improve trade terms with poorer countries of the world. Then there was Viet Nam. "To day," he said, "the pressure of events is remorselessly leading toward a major war, while efforts to reverse that trend are lagging disastrously behind. In my view, the tragic...
Self-sufficiency and mutual aid are key elements of Zoroastrianism, a faith whose origin and even basic tenets are obscured in mystery. Although some devout Parsis claim that Zoroaster was born about 6000 B.C., most Western scholars agree that he lived and taught in Persia during the 6th century B.C.-an era of religious (lowering that also saw the birth of Buddha and Confucius and the revival of Judaism after its Babylonian exile...