Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam had impaired the U.S. Seventh Army's combat capacity in West Germany, McNamara declared: "It is absolutely untrue, and you are the first that ought to know it. I'm sick and tired of having implications made that we have drawn down the forces in Western Europe when we haven't." McNamara lost his temper again when Cowles publications' Washington Correspondent Clark Mollenhoff, a longtime foe, persistently accused him of dodging questions about an adverse report by the Preparedness Subcommittee that the Pentagon has refused to release. The Defense Secretary said bitterly: "I unfortunately...
...western Iowa farm town of Red Oak has a proud military history dating back to the Civil War, when the area provided more Union troops per capita than any other in the state. The town has paid dearly for its distinction. During the dark days of World War II, Red Oak lost more than 50 of its sons in battles from Tunisia to Iwo Jima. In proportion to population (then 5,763), it was possibly the highest loss suffered by any town in the nation. Commemorating Red Oak's sacrifice, the Maritime Administration christened a wartime freighter after...
...questions than it answered. Originally, the Soviets had launched two large (about one ton each) space vehicles-Venus II and III-within one week of each other last November. The announced purpose was a flypast on either side of Venus, sending back pictures of both views. This led some Western scientists to speculate that Venus III had crashed into Venus by mistake. Not so, announced Moscow, explaining that Venus III was intended to make a soft landing by means of a parachute, but failed. Soft or hard, Sir Bernard Lovell, the director of Britain's Jodrell Bank Observatory, worried...
...they assimilated and accepted much of its trappings, casting about for the same status symbols that their masters had. This deep psychological need to cut the figure of nationhood for all to see is responsible for the imposing government palaces, the parliamentary maces, the conspicuous Rolls-Royces, the Western-run "national" airlines and the gleaming chancelleries that exist in many young nations that can hardly afford to print money on their...
...politicians of Western Europe and the United States have any real concern for the welfare of the African nations they will remove the barriers they presently impose on the African agricultural export trade," Colin Clark, director of Oxford University's Agricultural Economics Research Institute, recommended last night...