Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CAME IN FROM THE COLD. A grainy, gritty double exposure of the spy racket on both sides of the Berlin Wall. Richard Burton is brilliant as a Western burned-out case; Oskar Werner is his pre-eminent prey from the East. Martin Ritt (Hud) is responsible for the superb direction...
...life"). He fought isolationism in his native Midwest in the '30s. From the first, he supported the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan and NATO. To him, history is of one piece. "You can't be a world leader," he reasons, "and want to lead only in Western Europe and Latin America." That distinction is particularly relevant to the U.N., which for the sake of its own credibility must eventually demonstrate that it is as much concerned about Asia as it is about Africa or Europe...
...necessary precaution, Chiang sought a Vice President who could take on more of his administrative and diplomatic burdens and take over interim control of the country if he died in office. His choice was balding, Western-educated Premier Yen Chia-kan, 61, a vigorous administrator and the author of many of Formosa's dramatic economic reforms-and yet, surprisingly, a controversial figure in the Kuomintang. Unlike most Nationalist leaders, Yen is neither a military man nor a faithful party professional; he is even accused of being ill informed about Kuomintang "party history." So wary of him is the party...
Motherhood, God, Americanism, and George Chuvalo, the Brian London of the Western Hemisphere, will try to wrest the heavyweight boxing title from world champion Muhammed Ali in Toronto tonight. Las Vegas bookmakers rate Ali the eight-to-one favorite...
...trade involving only one-tenth of our world commitments. Williams also adds that "the support of freedom over communism is basic to...U.S. policy in Africa." In fact, White argues that American attempts to aid African development have not been successful in creating indigenous support for Western democracy, but that precedence has been given instead to a sterile and futile policy of containment...