Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stolen U.S. army gear. Within minutes, the two men were dressed as a couple of casual G.I.s, and the girl was hidden in the trunk. Finally, Karl-Heinz replaced the car's West Berlin license tags with U.S. military plates, and headed for Checkpoint Charlie, where uniformed Western servicemen can drive in and out without Communist inspection. It worked like a charm. As the car was waved through to West Berlin, neither the passengers nor the East German Grepo noticed Karl-Heinz' only technical error: the sergeant's stripes on his sleeves were sewn on upside down...
...avoid public controversy, Dr. Masters published nothing for five years, then reported his first findings in the relatively obscure Western Journal of Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology...
Garaudy views history with a certain kind of Europe-centered myopia. Ignoring the dynamism of Western democracy, he insists that the two major forces in the world today are Christianity and Communism, and that they must work together to prevent the destruction of mankind in nuclear war. "It would be a tragedy of history," Garaudy writes, "if their cooperation for the common construction of the future were frustrated by the weight of the past...
...start of last week, no fewer than 13 major-college teams still had unblemished season records. By the time the dust cleared, only two were unbeaten: No. 5-ranked Kentucky and unranked Texas Western. Brigham Young had had every reason to feel tall before the Quaker City Tournament in Philadelphia: with three men 6 ft. 11 in. on the team, and a 6-0 record that included a 103-83 thrashing of Philadelphia's own St. Joseph's, the Cougars had climbed all the way to No. 3 in the ratings. Imagine their surprise when they lost...
...threw the game. Is that what you want to hear?" growled Coach Vince Lombardi, after his Green Bay Packers conveniently lost their way into a tie with the Baltimore Colts for the National Football League's Western Conference championship. Convenient y, that is, for the N.F.L. - which scheduled a play-off on nationwide TV for the same afternoon that the San Diego Chargers and Buffalo Bills were to battle it out for the championship of the rival American Football League. Poor A.F.L. Last week, in 74 minutes of crunching football, the Packers managed...