Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BALLOU. Wild western heroics are trampled into horselaughs by Jane Fonda as a schoolmarm turned outlaw queen and Lee Marvin, doubly hilarious as a couple of no-good gunfighters, one her friend...
...buffer zone separating him from Red China that Tito had from Russia; nor has Peking's attitude toward North Viet Nam relaxed as Moscow's did toward Yugoslavia before the 1948 break. And when Tito broke clear, he had a unified nation under him, plus all of Western Europe to turn to for economic aid and military assistance...
...morning, the Reds finally got the point, though they didn't think it was very funny. Neither did Jones by the time he got back to Ramstein, having been cross-examined at the U.S. embassy in Vienna, and again in Frankfurt by a mysterious team identified only as "Western intelligence." After two days in the post hospital for "extreme nervousness," Jones had the Air Force Office of Special Investigation at work on him last week. And, girls being girls, no one could say whether his sweetie in Colorado was laughing or crying...
...their recent flirtations with capitalism, the Soviets have begun to cast covetous glances at that quintessential product of the consumer economy: the automobile. Russia has only one car for every 300 people, v. one for every ten in Western Europe and one for every three in the U.S. The Soviets are none too pleased about the disparity, and lately they have become highly interested in the capitalistic theory that big-time car production creates many jobs, which in turn gives people the money to buy cars. Last week the Russians decided to call in some Western automotive technology. In Moscow...
Returning to Turin in triumph, Fiat's normally aloof President Vittorio Valletta, 82, was cagier than ever, refused to discuss particulars. But if a great many details can be worked out, Fiat will build and help to staff the first fully Western-designed auto company on Soviet soil. (When Russia began producing autos in the 1920s, it bought some machinery and hired engineers from Henry Ford.) Officials of Fiat, which sells more cars in Europe than any other manufacturer, believe the agreement gives them a substantial lead over competitors in the only major untapped auto market left...