Word: westerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prudent Exercise. There is, of course, some suspicion that Tito is overdramatizing the Soviet threat in the hope of obtaining more Western economic aid to offset his increased defense expenditures. Most Western military men regard the possibility of an attack on Yugoslavia as unlikely for two reasons: 1) Yugoslavia is not geographically vital, as is Czechoslovakia, to the Soviets' defense system, and 2) the Yugoslavs, unlike the Czechoslovaks, are obviously determined to go down shooting. At present, there are no signs of Soviet preparations for an invasion, and winter snows will soon give Tito at least a few months...
Archaeologists have learned to be satisfied if their patient scraping unearths the wherewithal for even a footnote in the slowly growing record of man's early history. But recent digs have turned up enough material to flesh out two rich chapters in that saga. At Sardis, in western Turkey, a Harvard-Cornell N.Y.U. group has uncovered what is believed to be one of King Croesus' fabled gold refineries. In the barren desert of southeastern Iran, archaeologists from Harvard's Peabody Museum have found evidence of an extinct Middle Eastern city that was conquered by Alexander the Great...
Careful digging revealed that the circular depressions were cupels, or metal-refining bowls. Unearthed with them were four furnaces, remnants of bellows, tiny bits of gold and gold alloys, and pottery fragments from the time (570-547 B.C.) when Croesus ruled the Lydian Empire in what is now western Turkey...
...Israel 3,491 WESTERN EUROPE...
...profits of $1,993,786 during the fiscal year that ended June 30, 1968. About 40% of its sales are still generated by the labelers, which are sold in 105 countries. Almost all the rest comes from three wholly owned subsidiaries: Elliott Business Machines (20%); Trans-Western Service Industries, a laundry and dry-cleaning chain with 450 outlets in California and the Midwest (15%); and Modulux, which makes relocatable buildings mainly for schools and the military...