Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crusading desire to popularize astronomy. More than most other scientists, he has good reason to value public interest in his work. In 1957, while an inquiry was under way into the rising costs of the giant construction at Jodrell Bank, the new radio telescope became the first in the Western world to successfully track and pick up signals from Sputnik 1-a convincing demonstration that it was probably worth the more than $2,000,000 price after all. Later work in tracking U.S. satellites brought Jodrell Bank funds from NASA...
...Moscow] prefers to live in England." Nevertheless, Ashkenazy has not been back to Russia since 1963. His parents have not seen their oldest grandchild, Vladimir Jr., 41, in three years; they have never seen their infant granddaughter Nadya. Still, alone of all the Soviet artists who prefer the Western side of the Iron Curtain, Ashkenazy refuses to defect, clings carefully to his Russian citizenship. He hardly notices that each year he edges a little farther away. In the old days, he forgot to put articles in his English ("I had best steak of my life in Cleveland airport...
...three-act "play" with an anti-litter message. More to the point, GOMA honored Colorado's Adolph Coors Co. for its remarkable success in reducing the number of beer cans by the side of the highway. Coors, whose beer is the best-selling in nine of the eleven Western states, has been paying 10 for every empty can and bottle returned-at a loss to the company of 10 each. With recovery rates as high as 85% in some states, Coors last year retrieved 104 million bottles and over 13 million aluminum cans...
...says President Peter Benenson, 45, that hits totalitarian regimes at their "most sensitive point, their public image, their trade image, their tourist image." By publicizing Belov in the British press, Amnesty forced the Russians to acknowledge his fate. Izvestia accused Amnesty of "presumption and arrogance in suggesting that a Western psychiatrist" be allowed to examine the prisoner...
...Belt in judo), and most musically illiterate performer on the pop charts. But give him a subject and a guitar and he comes up with a song in ten minutes. RCA Victor arrangers transcribe the work for him which he describes as "kind of intermediate between ballad and country-western, with maybe a little calypso." Then, with cracking, lackluster tenor and a backing of RCA trumpets, or fiddle and humming voices, he croons away. For the most part, the ballads are banal and ridden with sentimentality ("Here's the mail that came today/ His silver wings and green beret...