Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LONER (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). Lloyd Bridges in a post-bellum Western dramatic series...
...People's Wars." In contrast to Western efforts to damp the fires, Red China was gleefully pouring fuel on them. Cheering on Pakistan, Peking accused India of "aggression," aroused fears that it might repeat its 1962 invasion of India. The Chinese thus effectively immobilized at least half a dozen of India's 20 army divisions, which remained grimly in place along the northern border...
...Minister Lin Piao-one of the top seven men in Red China's hierarchy-called for worldwide subversion to destroy the U.S. and its allies. Recalling Mao Tse-tung's guerrilla strategy of enlisting the rural peasantry against city-based governments, Lin declared: "If North America and Western Europe can be called the cities of the world, then Asia, Africa and Latin America are the rural areas. The contemporary world revolution presents a picture of the encirclement of cities...
...tense months of negotiation, the executives involved scratched out details in longhand so that not even confidential secretaries would know what was going on. Last week the secret was out-and it stunned the railroad industry, Wall Street and even Washington. Tuohy's C. & O. and the Norfolk & Western Railway announced that they planned not only to merge with each other but to take in five smaller eastern railroads as satellites. The consolidation would produce the greatest passenger and freight colossus in U.S. history...
Prickly Provisos. Tuohy, the C. & O.'s vice chairman, and Herman H. Pevler, the Norfolk & Western's president, attached some prickly provisos to their willingness to take in the indigents, notably that some layer of Government permanently pick up the tab for commuter losses on three of them. Beyond that, the merger must surmount threatened minority-stockholder suits and possible antitrust objections from the Department of Justice, then win approval not only of the five little lines (most of which consider the offered price too low) but also of the Interstate Commerce Commission, whose deliberation may well take...