Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SAGA OF WESTERN MAN (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Christ Is Born. The story of the Wandering Jew, from the time of Abraham to the birth of Christ. John Secondari and John Huston narrate...
...missile defenses, if for no other reason than that they recognize that development of the expensive systems will hurt domestic programs in the relatively hard-pressed Soviet Union more than in the affluent U.S. Besides, the Kremlin realizes that, as harmony between the superpowers grows, so does restiveness in Western Europe about U.S. intentions...
Medium Machines. To Western analysts, by far the most important news to emerge from the Supreme Soviet meeting was a 6% increase in Moscow's arms spending. As part of the new budget, the group approved the largest defense appropriation in Soviet peacetime history: 17.7 billion rubles ($19.7 billion). Actually, that figure represents only a fraction of the actual outlay. It covers only the actual housekeeping costs of the Soviet Union's military forces, ammunition purchases and the acquisition of light conventional weapons. The Soviets routinely disguise under other headings their spending for important weaponry. Outlays for nuclear...
...withdrawn from much of the community life, living Thoreau-like in a small hermitage on abbey property more than a mile from the main buildings. This year he was finally granted a leave of absence from Gethsemani to study Oriental monasticism and its possible application to the Western contemplative tradition...
Later in the week, probably worrying that his remarks might start a new flurry of currency speculation, Schiller tempered them a bit. He said that "there is no question of revaluing or devaluing right now," but that there might be a general realignment of Western currency parities in 1970 or 1971. Many continental financiers figure that values may have to change long before that-perhaps by next spring-unless the economic austerity programs in France and Britain sharply reduce the pressures on the franc and pound. Last week both currencies rallied a bit in international trading. The pound gained after...