Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MUSTANGS AND COW HORSES, edited by J. Frank Dobie, Mody C. Boatwright and Harry H. Ransom. A classic collection of authentic, unromanticized Western lore about the wild mustangs and the men who brutally tamed and rode them in the conquest of the continent...
...SYLVIA: EARLY MORNING RAIN (Vanguard). British Columbia-born Ian and Ontario-born Sylvia weave a spritely texture of vocal contrast and concert as they sing country and Western music with a Northwest twang. Less bent on social comment than on soothing harmony, they sing gaily of whisky, women and want, waxing serious only when they try to patch up the French-English rift back home in Song for Canada ("How come we can't talk to each other any more...
...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...
...easing travel restrictions, making consumer goods available, and in general promoting gulyds Communism, Hungary's economy is in serious trouble. A decidedly ineffectual administrator, Kadar confessed recently that, because of "unevenesses, difficulties and mistakes," scheduled improvements in farm and industrial efficiency had not materialized. Moreover, agricultural exports to Western Europe, Hungary's traditional market, are steadily being trimmed by the Common Market's rising tariff barriers. Thus, Kallai and Komocsin are plainly better suited than Kadar for such tasks as negotiating more favorable trade arrangements with the West; Brutyo and Gaspar have obviously been picked to boost...
...real revolutionaries in Russia today are a brave band of economists who put profits and efficiency above Marxist cant. Led by Evsei Liberman (TIME cover, Feb. 12), they persuaded the Kremlin six months ago to begin sizable tests of their Western-style theories in the Soviet economy. First some 400 light-industry plants were cut loose from rigid central planning, permitted to produce whatever they thought they could profitably sell. Then heavy industry in the Lvov area was allowed to try out the new system. When factory managers and economists from 30 cities met in Moscow recently to review...