Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reigning Sorcery. Brittany and western Normandy still produce a dozen stories a year of sorcery and witchcraft. Sometimes it goes beyond fun and games. In the Norman hamlet of Saint-Fraimbault last month, a woman drowned herself because she believed she was a victim of the evil eye, and a young farmer reportedly hanged himself for a similar reason. Driven to holy anger, the local priest cried from the pulpit to his tiny congregation: "You believe more in the devil's power than in God's. Sorcery reigns here as master...
...cause of the trouble. Some of them blamed the jet stream, the belt of high-altitude wind that blows around the planet in mid-latitudes. It has been unusually swift this winter, reaching speeds of 150 m.p.h., and has crossed the U.S. in an unusual pattern, curving down from western Alaska to Southern California and then slanting up to Chicago. It may have had some influence on low-altitude weather, but experts do not agree. One group blames the West Coast's time of weather trouble on a great patch of unusually warm surface water...
...originally a languorous Italian brunette, but De Laurentiis promoted an international newspaper straw vote to find out whether the world thought of Eve as blonde or dark, and a few thousand Western Europeans in effect declared that they could not see how the mother of mankind could have come from any place east of Sweden. Eve is now a Swedish girl named Ulla Bergryd who has been accustomed to stalking about in only long tresses while paparazzi keep leaping out of the foliage to take her picture. Huston has decided that there will be no fig leaves after the Fall...
...confidence in the efficiency and fairness of the world money system. Despite its $7 billion trade surplus, the U.S. has to worry about an outflow of gold under the current rules simply because it spends so much abroad for tourism, investment, foreign aid and the common defense of the western world. More and more money experts have begun to complain that any system that penalizes such beneficial spending is in need of overhaul...
...with Mergers. The best prospect for saving sickly lines is merger with more prosperous, freight-heavy carriers. Lately the Interstate Commerce Commission has taken a more lenient attitude toward mergers, approving in July one of the greatest rail linkups in U.S. history-the Norfolk & Western's absorption of five other lines. Now the ICC is considering 13 railroad mergers. The biggest deal by far would...