Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since then, the Soviet economic reform, marking the ideological bankruptcy of old-line Marxism, has become one of the most fascinating stories for Western journalists. It continued last week as the Russians made their latest and biggest move in the new direction (see THE WORLD, "On Toward the Goulash"). While their road is certainly not marked Private Enterprise, it is startlingly different from the rigidly planned, tightly structured Soviet economy of old-and it involves more than a passing bow in the direction of the profit motive in human affairs...
...week, his shop churned out a series of announcements that suggested the massive size and shape of his operation: the Defense Department 1) announced that Lockheed Aircraft had won the hotly contested $2 billion contract for the new C-5A military transport plane (see U.S. BUSINESS), 2) awarded to Western Electric a $21.5 million contract for development of an advanced Zeus anti-missile missile, and 3) promised a decision within 90 days on whether to begin production of an anti-missile system that could cost between $7 and $20 billion. The department also took on a new Air Force secretary...
...western division, the Greon Bay Packers look like a sure thing. They combine veterans who have played for championship teams in the past, men such as Bart Starr, Jim Taylor, Willie Davis, and Ray Nitschke, with young, ambitious players like Lee Roy Caffey, Marv Fleming, and Dave Robinson. The defense is solid, and Starr's passing complements the running game nicely, but the determing factor should be the admirable combination of unflappable old hands and unbreakable young ones...
Congress passed an Immigration Reform Bill yesterday that eliminated the 51-year-old National Origins Quota System and imposed, for the first time, quotas on countries in the Western Hemisphere...
...compromise bill, which was passed by a vote of 320 to 69 in the House and an oral acceptance in the Senate, provides an over-all quota of 170,000 immigrants annually from countries outside the Western Hemisphere. No more than 20,000 a year may come from any one country...