Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CHINA: YEAR OF THE GUN? (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). A report based on recent visits to China by Western newsmen-the Toronto Star's Mark Gayn, Agence France Presse's Jacques Marcuse, Danish Photographer Ole Neesgaard (who shot some of the color footage)-as well as interviews with recently returned Korean War Defector Morris Wills, Authoress Han Suyin and Secretary of State Dean Rusk...
...basic meat-and-potatoes information, the tourist must look elsewhere. If he is in range, the best guides to most of his needs are produced by the French tire factory, Michelin & Cie. The Michelin Guides cover most of Western Europe in four languages and in two series. Michelin Green is an excellent illustrated sightseeing guide, heavy on history. Michelin Red, whose annual ratings can make or break any leading restaurant in France, is the undisputed arbiter of the world's finest cuisine. Unfortunately, Michelin covers neither entertainment npr shopping, and is no help at all to the tourist wondering...
...education is the key to economic growth and personal fulfillment, as Americans fervently believe, then Western Europe is in a bad jam. So warns Raymond Poignant, 48, who is a graduate of the tough Ecole Nationals d'Administration, a top French educational planner, and a judge of administrative law at the Counseil d'Etat (France's highest tribunal). His comparison of the educational systems in Western Europe, the U.S. and Russia has just been published under the auspices of the six Common Market countries...
...million people in the Common Market roughly match the U.S.'195 million and the Soviet Union's 228 million. Yet in the last years for which full figures are known (variously 1963 and 1964), Western Europe graduated only 101,000 university students as compared with 450,000 in the U.S. and 345,000 in Russia. While 20% of college-age Americans and 8% of Russians get degrees, the Common Market proportion is only...
Recovery operations snarled traffic on Memorial Drive and Western Avenue from about 3-5:30 p.m. and completely cut off Mem Drive for ten minutes around 5 p.m. when the O'dsmobile was hauled up the river bank into the street...