Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Viet Nam was not on the agenda, but the war managed nonetheless to dominate conversation at the annual Western Governors' Conference in Las Vegas last week. While most of the twelve Governors present-six Democrats and six Republicans-endorsed the Administration's basic policy, many of them expressed misgivings over the conduct of the war and the future of the Saigon government. Most expressed concern about Viet Nam's repercussions on the November elections-in which nine of the governors will appear on the ballot...
...accident last Monday at the intersection of Memorial Drive and Western Avenue resulted from a traffic hazard that ought to have been corrected long ago. Officials of the Metropolitan police have complain some time that the traffic signals at this corner and at the intersection of Memorial and River Street are located in a "blind Since the lights are raised only about feet above the ground, drivers approaching the corner cannot see whether the signal is red, green or yellow until they...
Europe's failure to keep up is most alarming in science. The six countries graduated only 12,000 scientists; the U.S. graduated 52,000 and Russia at least 21,000. West Germany, which ranks first in industry among the nations of Western Europe, graduated only 2,518 scientists: a severe shortage looms there...
...WESTERN EUROPE...
...Rare Breed is all conventional outdoor fun, enlivened with fist fights, rugged scenery, and the green-eyed beauty of Maureen O'Hara, who makes Technicolor seem a necessity. But the 4-H sex appeal of this genial western centers principally upon a white-faced bull named Vindicator. A hornless Hereford, he arrives in America well before the turn of the century, chaperoned by Maureen and plucky Juliet Mills as a well-bred English mother and daughter with some eccentric ideas about animal husbandry. Their hefty British bull is just the thing, they swear, to beef up the herds...