Word: westerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evident in other hippie centers like Los Angeles, Chicago and New York City. Commercialism was rife last week among the "work tribes" of Manhattan's Lower East Side: craft shops were bursting with tourists and the Group Image was busy shooting not speed but a full-length psychedelic western titled Indian Givers, in which Guru Timothy Leary plays, of all unlikely roles, a sheriff. Already a gnawing sense of malaise is setting in. Says one of the Group's veteran members, Roger Ricco, 27: "A kid comes up and hands me a flower, and I think, 'Nice...
...medical eyes, a fetus is usually incapable of independent life before 20 weeks, thus presenting no murder issue in abortion. In contrast to Catholic doctrine, most other Western religions now view the mother's life as primary. Many Jews accept abortion because they regard a fetus as an organic part of the mother and not as a living soul until its birth. The National Council of Churches has approved hospital abortions "when the health or life of the mother is at stake," and many clergymen broadly define health to mean social as well as physical wellbeing. Last month...
...xenophobic frenzy, the Baathists have banned all Western newsmen and tourists, along with such Western imports as neckties, cigarettes and refrigerators, which are now called "foreign frivolities." Education Minister Suleiman Al Khish is pursuing a policy that he calls "foreign cultural evacuation." The regime is doing away with most French and English classes in Syrian schools. It has just taken control of Syria's 885 private schools, many of which are church-run, thereby evoking the combined wrath of the Moslem Mufti of Damascus and the Roman Catholic Patriarch of Syria. It has also "nationalized" the textbooks in these...
...seats, but even the candidates themselves seem a bit embarrassed. There have been no parades, speeches or rallies so far-only a few stray posters and spot announcements on government-run television urging viewers to vote. Whether they will or not, no one can tell until election day. By Western standards, the election is certainly limited; yet even a step toward democracy is a welcome curiosity in Franco's Spain...
...Including Western Union Chairman Russell McFall, who has put the telegraph utility on an ambitious diversification course, both Chairman Fred Sullivan and President Franc Ricciardi of the fast-growing conglomerate, Walter Kidde & Co., and George Scharffenberger, freewheeling president, of New York-based City Investing...