Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...organization and cadres-which made him second only to Dej in power and influence. The stocky figure with the curly brown hair and perpetually wrinkled forehead popped up everywhere as Dej's delegate: Moscow in 1959 and 1961, Italy in 1962, Peking in 1964. On his only known Western vacation, Ceausescu checked into Paris' Prince de Galles Hotel in 1963, along with his slim, sloe-eyed wife Elena, herself a chemist and economics writer. Elena Ceausescu won her bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1963, after Gheorghiu-Dej decided education was an asset for his underlings...
...toothache," services-hungry city dwellers have dragged the birth rate down to a level that, if continued, could lead to a population loss by the end of the century. Rumania, with a birth rate of 14.5 per thousand, is in no such trouble, and since the main reason for Western capital investment in Eastern Europe is access to a cheap labor supply, Ceausescu & Co. seem assured of a sound future...
Bridges to Pest. Trade with the West is one thing; adoption of Western economic devices is quite another. Though Rumania has yet to employ such capitalist devices as profit incentives and supply-demand marketing, Poland and Hungary are working in that direction. But it is East Germany and Czechoslovakia that lead the region in dynamic planning. Long dogmatic in its imitation of the Soviet pattern, the Czech party last December took...
...last week of 1965. Even high-priced stocks have continued to rise in a number of high-flying groups, notably electronics and airlines. Since Feb. 9, when the Dow-Jones decline be gan, Collins Radio has moved from 48 to 71, Pan Am from 57 to 60, Gulf & Western from 97 to 106 and Texas Instruments from 200 to 210. On the bearish side, there have been sharp drops in several groups, including aircraft manufacturing, life insurance, oil and utilities...
Despite ancient animosities, political rivalries and the Viet Nam war, 24 non-Communist Asian nations from Iran to Western Samoa are banding together for their own economic development -largely at the behest of the United Na tions Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East. "The river is a psy chological rallying point," says U Nyun, ECAFE executive secretary. "Countries that normally bicker can work together. The Mekong project holds the seeds -perhaps the only really promising seeds -for abiding peace in Southeast Asia...