Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Politburo members on a four-hour tour of Automation 69, an international exhibit of new electronic equipment that is being held in Moscow's Sokolniki Park. In a jovial mood, Brezhnev singled out pretty girls for handshakes, embraced Communist exhibitors with Russian bear hugs, and chatted amiably at Western stands. Eying the new equipment at the French pavilion, Brezhnev asked, "Who is cheating whom-we you or you us?" As the French tittered nervously, he added: "That was only a joke, of course." At the West German exhibition, he and Politburo Ideologue Mikhail Suslov were shown...
...Sudan. But, he added in an introductory meeting with Khartoum's diplomatic corps, "we are Arabs and fanatics as far as the Palestine question is concerned. We advocate nonalignment in foreign policy, but we will stand fast against any country that supports Israel, be it Eastern or Western...
...been a steady climb to this peak for John R. Cash, 37. A solid coun-try-and-western success since 1955, he has occasionally crossed the boundaries and sold to the wider pop audience (Ring of Fire, I'll Walk the Line). He was rediscovered by the public at large last year when his At Folsom Prison climbed to the top of the charts and sold over 1,000,000 albums. In 1968, he made $2,000,000, and this year things look even better...
...last year. As the world's most successful exporters, the Germans in 1968 sold $25 billion worth of machinery, vehicles, chemicals, plastics and other products to foreign nations. That was far more than any other country except the U.S. With an economy larger than that of all Western Europe, the U.S. had 1968 exports of $33.4 billion...
...museum has gone to great lengths to install the sculpture in settings that suggest the churches from which it came. The main entrance to the exhibition is a massive 12th century limestone portal from western France. Grotesque demons, beady-eyed saints, capitals, reliefs and niche ornaments are ranged on piers within a series of specially constructed pseudo-Romanesque arcades...