Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DEAN MARTIN: I'M THE ONE WHO LOVES YOU (Reprise). Dean trades his Neapolitan approach to a song for a country-and-Western beat that fits in fine with his own easy style. Guitars twang and fiddles saw the hillbilly sound in King of the Road, My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You, Walk On By-all sung without a trace of tomato paste...
Agricultural Organization in Rome last week, warns that unless recipient countries devote as much effort to increasing agricultural production as they do to prestige-building industrial projects, they could face a cutoff of U.S. food. Otherwise, he says, within 20 years the combined capacity of the U.S. and the Western world will not be sufficient to fill the gap. Said Freeman: "World hunger can be finally solved only in those areas where it is most prevalent." It can be done. In twelve of 26 new nations, crop increases averaged 5.6% yearly between...
...past two decades, Europe has undergone a stunning renaissance, its two greatest symbols being the Common Market and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Under the inspiration of Jean Monnet, Western Europe developed a common trade area that led to unprecedented prosperity and a working class with at least the start of a middle-class way of life-a fact with incalculable repercussions in the Communist world. The Market also led to the beginnings of a free, united and supranational Europe, not attempted since the nation-state was born with all its banners flying, though it has been a dream...
With only 2,800 bank branches (one for every 11,000 inhabitants), Spain lags behind most of Western Europe. The annual income of only $490 per capita has created little need for bank accounts. As Spain prospers, however, real income is expected to increase at least 50% in the next decade. The growth prospects have already attracted several American banks into joint ventures with Spanish banks. First National City Bank and Bank of America, for example, have set up respective fifty-fifty arrangements with the Banco de Vizcaya and the Banco de Santander...
...celebrate the end of Red China's month-long trade fair at Canton last week, a chorus of mountain girls sang of their yearning to be turned into wild geese so they could fly to Peking to be with Chairman Mao. Mao wishes that more Western businessmen would share that ardor, but his yearning has little more chance of fulfillment than that of the girls. Fewer countries sent delegations to the fair than in the past. While the range of goods that the Chinese showed off was wider, the quality showed only scant improvement. The Chinese-made suitcases were...