Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hardly Happy. Western observers noted that, despite their hard-lining public stand on Viet Nam, the Russians have never been particularly happy about the war there. But to retain credibility in their struggle with Red China for paramountcy in the Communist world and to avoid any sign of weakness, they have flatly rejected appeals from Westerners-especially from Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson last July-to help in launching negotiations that would end the war. "If you want to talk peace," they have said, in effect, "go to Hanoi." For their part, Lyndon Johnson and Secretary of State...
Barbers were warned not to give Western-style cuts, and Peking girls rushed home to wash the Western-style curls out of their hair and change from knee-length skirts into shapeless "revolutionary" pantaloons. The use of pedicabs was barred unless the customer was willing to pull the cab himself, with the driver as passenger, and pay the driver just the same. Chinese checkers and Western chess were abolished. Lovers' trysting places in Peking's parks were declared off limits as unconducive to Mao reading. Under pressure from the Red Guards, the staff of the famed Chuan...
...that two-thirds of all white South Africans want TV, but Minister of Posts and Telegraphs Albert Hertzog, one of the most powerful men in the Nationalist Party, refuses to budge. "No, not, and never," he says, adding that TV is "the greatest destroyer of family life in the Western world...
...scene was stupendous. On a sloping hillside next to shimmering Lake Balaton in western Hungary, acre after acre of multicolored tents stood next to row after row of brightly painted caravans. And above them all, like so many regimental battle flags, pennants fluttered in the summer breeze. Said one slightly awed Western European visitor: "I feel that Charlton Heston should step out of that big blue tent and tell us all to charge...
...kingpins of finance both in the U.S. and abroad. Set up in 1848 in a tiny State Street office by Lawyer John Clarke Lee and his cousin, Boston Merchant George Higginson, Lee Higginson over the years financed the development of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and other Western railroads, built several Boston fortunes by developing the fabulous Calumet & Hecla Copper Mine in Michigan. The firm helped put together General Electric in 1892, led the financing of the struggling General Motors...