Word: westerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Western journalists usually knock in vain at that door with its peephole at 2 Rue Leverrier, a short walk from the house where Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein used to hold court. Bo entertains other visitors, however, chain-smoking cigarettes and sipping pungent tea. His handsome wife, Pham Thi Ky, 43 (no kin to Saigon's Vice President), works in the mission's accounting department. Bo is widely read, an art lover, an ex-journalist, and his French is so polished that he once taught the language. He likes to quote Balzac, but his favorite aphorism, from...
...created in 1962 to provide economic advice to under-developed countries which request it. It currently has advisory teams in Liberia and Ghana. In previous years, the staff for these two units was selected from throughout the United States and western Europe and few staff members returned to Harvard after their work in Africa...
President Morse, a Boston-born physicist and onetime Brown University dean, had been president of Case Institute since 1966, a job he assumed after a two-year stint as Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research and Development. (Western Reserve's longtime president, John S. Millis, 64, became the new university's first chancellor.) In his new post, Morse expects the school to continue expanding, but he believes that the school can best upgrade itself by "building from strengths we now have." Eventually, Morse hopes, those strengths can make Case Western Reserve a Midwestern rival to Caltech...
Bush Royalties. Today, at least eight out of ten roses bought in any flower shop in Western Europe are Meilland creations. In the U.S., Meilland roses have earned ten awards at the annual All-America Rose Selections, while no other European firm has ever won twice...
...Uncommitted. Though no airbus has yet moved much beyond the drafting board, the prospective builders are steadily increasing their sales efforts. "The majority of airlines in the U.S., the Western Hemisphere and overseas requiring planes of this type are still uncommitted," said McDonnell Douglas Chairman James S. McDonnell. Thus even Boeing, which has yet to sell a single airbus, figures that it is still worthwhile to stay in the fight...