Word: westerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forte has been in giving all of his monies away to a hospital cen ter dedicated to the care of over 300,000 patients in a rural setting who otherwise would be without this resource. He is my nominee for the Nobel Prize for Peace in the Western Hemisphere...
...trunks of foreign visitors, but do not even bother to open their luggage before waving them through. Traffic the other way is heavy too; suddenly able to get passports and visas after years of restricted travel, Czechoslovak citizens are jamming border points on their way to vacations in Western Europe...
Musical Satires. Many people have moved their dinner back an hour so that they will not miss the latest exposes about the Novotnŷ era on the 7 p.m. television news. One listener recently complained to Radio Prague about government jamming of Western broadcasts. In no time at all, the station produced the apologetic voice of the Minister of Culture, Miroslav Galuska, who announced that the government planned to abolish jamming. At the Semafor, a cellar theater in Prague, S.R.O. crowds gather three nights a week to laugh and cry out in shocked surprise at a musical satire, The Last...
...such young people are Robert Hall, a 20-year-old Seattle Negro whose skin is so black it is bluish, and his strawberry blonde fiancée Nancy Mitton, also 20. Inseparable since grade school, both were honor students in high school and won scholarships to Western Washington State College. There, both have become campus leaders-and Hall, who intends to become a chemical engineer, finished the school's four-year chemistry curriculum before the end of his sophomore year. The couple plan to be married in September, then enter the University of Washington to begin their junior year...
Bank charge-card schemes are also going international, enabling holders to use their cards when traveling abroad. Interbank, with Banco Nacional de Mexico S.A. already in the fold, hopes soon to sign up banks in Japan and Western Europe as well. Not to be outdone, BankAmericard has gone into a joint credit-card venture with Barclays Bank Ltd. in Britain, Sumitomo Bank in Japan and four banks in Canada. BankAmericard is already interchangeable with Barclaycard and Sumitomo card, and next month the Canadian banks will join the system with their own Chargex card. So that merchants in the four countries...