Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Behind the Iron Curtain, an atheistic authoritarianism has forced many churches back to the catacombs. In Western Europe, church leaders wonder how to evangelize post-Christian pagans for whom towering cathedrals are museums rather than centers of a living faith. Warns the German philosopher and publisher Gerhard Szeczesny: "One good salesman, endowed with a sufficient gift of gab and versed in the more recent theological adaptations, might well be capable
...American Telephone & Telegraph Co. to succeed retiring Eugene McNeely. Romnes, the Wisconsin-born son of an immigrant Norwegian baker, made his mark at A.T. & T. as an electrical engineer, won six patents in circuit design at Bell Laboratories before moving on to the operating side. As president of Western Electric, A.T. & T.'s manufacturing arm, from 1959 until early this year, he shaved the lead time on orders and deliveries for such critical items as cable. Romnes is a gentle and friendly executive whose great strength is persuasion and persistence; his skill is convincing people that the impossible...
...Miracle. Britain's misery lies deep in its industrial and commercial bones. While other European nations have experienced a postwar "economic miracle," Britain's average growth rate over the past decade has been only an unexciting 2½% , among the lowest of Western industrial nations. Its industrial production has increased by only a third in the past decade, while such nations as Japan, France, Germany and Italy have more than doubled production. Improvement in productivity in most branches of British industry has been meager. Britain, in short, has been living considerably beyond her means...
...unions, is involved in continual controversy over jurisdiction. One firm may have to deal-as does Ford of Dagenham-with as many as 21 different unions within one plant. Still, the lack of notice, severance pay and worker retraining has made British labor among the least protected in all Western countries and often moved workers to resist whatever changes are attempted. This situation encourages overemployment -one of Britain's main labor problems -makes it more difficult and expensive for firms to export, and tends to make all workers progress at the speed of the slowest...
...English journalist who was born and raised in St. Petersburg and is perfectly bilingual. He spent all but a few months of the war actually in Russia. As a sympathetic left-wing nonCommunist, he was given unusual freedom of travel. He was one of the only two Western journalists allowed into Leningrad during the siege. He kept a day-by-day diary, filed innumerable dispatches to British and U.S. papers, and turned his Russian war experiences into several personal-history books in the '40s. Now he has put it all into one book, drawing also on the voluminous official...