Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year postwar coalition of the People's Party and the Socialists brought Austria a stable government - one that was ultimately able to shoo out the occupying powers, including the Russians, in 1955, pursue a Western-oriented neutralism afterward, and generate impressive economic energy. Even when the People's Party of Chancellor Josef Klaus won a majority in the 165-member Parliament in March, both parties looked toward a continuation of the coalition...
Founded in 1551, Mexico's National University is one of the Western Hemisphere's oldest-and probably its most troublesome. It has been closed by strikes and riots more times than some of its students can count. Emperor Maximilian, in fact, abolished it entirely in 1865, and not until 1910 was it revived. Since then, while some students have gone on to become internationally recognized architects, physicians and teachers, others have majored in mayhem, cutting classes, tossing out professors and spouting left-wing propaganda...
When the second and incredibly violent eruption ripped Thera around 1470 B.C., however, it caused the central and western part of the little island to sink and generated tsunamis (seismic sea waves) between 100 and 165 feet high. "Within 20 minutes, these waves hit the Cretan coast with terrifying fury," says Marinates, "destroying everything they could reach." The waves were accompanied by a rain of volcanic ash that buried nearly everything left standing and by fumes that poisoned the population. In the wake of the catastrophic eruption, most of the surviving Minoans fled Crete, sailing to other Mediterranean islands, mainland...
...sight. Not this year. The Celtics had to scramble for a 54-26 regular season record and second place behind the Philadelphia 76ers. They then had to beat third-place Cincinnati and the first-place 76ers in the Eastern Division play-offs for the right to meet the Western Division's Los Angeles Lakers in the N.B.A. finals...
...will hold 61% of the stock in the new company and control 14 of the 25 directorships. Chairman and chief executive will be Pennsy Chairman Stuart Saunders, 56, a Harvard-educated lawyer who started the rail industry's merger marathon a decade ago as boss of the Norfolk & Western, which he arranged to unite with four other roads. The president and chief operating officer will be the Central's Perlman, 63, who is more noted for forceful operating know-how than deft administration. And keeping a close eye on moneybags will be the major stockholders: the Central...