Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President honed his sharpest barbs for those critics-notably Sovietologist George Kennan and Pundit Walter Lippmann-who contend that Viet Nam's destiny is a trivial matter compared with the defense of Western Europe. To this thesis, Johnson replied: "We cannot raise a double standard to the world. We cannot hold freedom less dear in Asia than in Europe." Nor, he suggested pointedly, should the U.S. "be less willing to sacrifice for men whose skin is a different color...
...boys at the Naval Academy in Annapolis from taking all-too-willing local brides, it bars marriage of either whites or Negroes with "a member of the Malay race." So, when Jo Ann Kovacs, 25, a white Baltimore nurse, and Meki Toalepai, 26, a handsome singer-dancer-musician from Western Samoa, applied for a marriage license in Baltimore this month, they were refused. Maryland, the unhappy couple quickly discovered, would allow Jo Ann to marry anyone whose skin was red, yellow or white, while Meki could legally take a wife whose skin was red, yellow or brown. But brown...
...population will require a giant jump in job openings-some 200,000 more in ten years-and Governor Sanchez has made employment the core of his 85-point program. He envisages a heavy-industry zone on the undeveloped southeast coast, with the Phillips complex as its nucleus. For the western region, he wants a scientific center to redress Puerto Rico's lack of research facilities. He also plans a modernized fishing industry to compete in rich home waters now exploited primarily by the Japanese...
Certain prophets are in a positively millennial mood. Harvard's Emmanuel Mesthene, executive director of a ten-year, $5,000,000 program on Technology and Society commissioned by IBM, believes that for the first time since the golden age of Greece, Western man "has regained his nerve" and has come to believe, rightly, that he can accomplish anything. "My hunch," says Mesthene, "is that man may have finally expiated his original sin, and might now aspire to bliss...
...police wagon and a small truck drove up to the back door of a Moscow courthouse last week, avoiding the knot of students, the Western newsmen, and the two tearful wives who were waiting at the front. Into the vehicles were bundled Authors Daniel Sinyavsky, 40, and Yuli Daniel, 40, who were then whisked off to start serving terms of seven and five years, respectively, in forced-labor colonies. As expected, Sinyavsky and Daniel had been found guilty in a stacked trial of "maliciously slandering" Russia in their stories-some of which, oddly enough, concern writers serving terms in forced...