Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Summer but Western. Nixon was very much the impresario. He gestured like a would-be conductor to The Stars and Stripes Forever, escorted Armstrong and then Collins around the floor between courses, stood to lead applause for the band during The Marines' Hymn, beamed paternally as he awarded the astronauts the Medal of Freedom.* Delightedly he announced that it was "the highest privilege I could have" to offer a concluding toast to Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins. The President seemed relaxed and already refreshed from his first few days of vacation in nearby San Clemente at his new Western White...
Beyond new statutes and energetic reinforcement, the nation needs another, stronger weapon: public indignation. There is not nearly enough of that in the U.S. No other Western, industrial country in modern times has suffered criminal abuses on such a scale. America's porous, pluralistic and permissive society offers extraordinary opportunities, chances to hide and to advance, for the enterprising and imaginative criminal. But, most fundamentally, U.S. society helps the criminal by toleration (occasionally even admiration) and by providing a ready market for his services. Illicit gambling thrives because of the popular demand for it. Politicians of questionable integrity remain...
...battle could, of course, have begun by accident. But Western observers reason that if anybody deliberately started the skirmish, the Russians would seem the more likely culprits. By keeping the Kazakhstan-Sinkiang border stirred up, Moscow may hope to prevent the Chinese from starting trouble along Russia's more remote and vulnerable far eastern border. There, several cities lie within easy reach of Chinese guns. More important, they lie within an area that was once controlled by China, a point that Peking drives home nightly with Russian-language radio broadcasts beamed to Siberia. The broadcasts sign off with...
...season will not be new -TV seasons never are-but it will be different. The western, for example, is expiring like a perforated cowpoke, shot down to a mere five by critics of TV violence. Situation comedies-"sitch-coms," in the jargon of the trade-are up to 25, three more than last year. Adventure shows, in which journalists, lawyers or spies match wits and gimmicks, will shrink to 16, v. 18 last year...
...High Wire. Older businessmen-who grew up in the Depression, fought in World War II and went to college on the G.I. Bill-have to run hard to keep up. "Many older men feel that techniques have passed them by," says Dr. Russell Cansler, director of placement at North western's Graduate School of Business Administration. "They see promotions and raises they want going to men ten or 15 years their junior." In an effort to acquire the new computer-oriented management skills that are being so highly rewarded, older executives are enrolling in business school. More than...