Word: westerns
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...similar to earlier ones that ruinously shortchanged the Czechoslovaks; they must deliver trucks, heavy pipe and other manufactured goods to the Russians in return for raw materials. In addition, both countries will cooperate in the construction of a long pipeline to carry natural gas from the Soviet fields in western Siberia to Czechoslovak plants near Kosice...
...part of the normalization program, Dubcek and his colleagues issued a proclamation appealing to Czechs abroad to come home. "Your place is here," it said. "Czechoslovakia needs your capabilities, knowledge and education." The Czechoslovak leaders even issued special assurances that there would be no reprisals against returnees. Throughout Western Europe, where there are now an estimated 60,000 Czechoslovak "tourists," Czechoslovak embassies are holding briefing sessions to try to convince those who fled to return home. Some Czechoslovaks, especially those who had been caught abroad by the invasion, were indeed returning. But others, notably scientists, professors and artists, sought asylum...
Shankar's display of musical hypnotism clearly dramatized the essential difference between Western and Indian music. Much of Western music is an ex pressive artistic message delivered-as if in a package-directly to the listener. Indian music attempts to induce a loftier, more profound emotional and spiritual state in the listener through a steady, stroboscopic kind of rhythmic and melodic bedazzlement. At the height of a raga, says Shankar, "it is utter joy, uninhibited, that an artist experiences. The raga, the musician, the listeners, all become one." That is something that India's Ravi Shankar...
Once again, the central bankers of Western nations rallied last week to support the pound sterling. They agreed to give Britain $2 billion of stand-by credit. This time, however, Britain's creditors insisted on tough new terms to correct the anomaly of a country that seeks to retain prestige as an international banker while remaining perennially broke. The outcome was a plan to reduce-and perhaps gradually end -the pound's function as one of the world's two reserve currencies...
...company originated as a track builder for Western railroads. It undertook dozens of rail projects, notably a 725-mile stretch (with 45 tunnels) of Western Pacific line through the Sierra Nevada and the Feather River Canyon. In the 1930s, Utah started its all-out expansion. It became one of Six Companies, Inc., a consortium that also included Henry Kaiser and Morrison-Knudsen Co., which bid jointly on Hoover, Bonneville and many another mammoth engineering project in the booming West. The Six Companies have long since separated, but Utah is still heavily involved in construction. It currently has a $102 million...