Word: barriere
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...snugly behind their three-mile limits, a tradition established 250 years ago, when three miles was the span of a cannon's shot. In the modern world of atoms, rockets, and planes swifter than sound, the wall of the fortress is invisible. The wall is electronic-an outthrust barrier of radars, direction-seeking radios and - aiming instruments. For both the U.S. and the Soviet Union, it has become vital to spot and plot the ever-shifting shadows and strengths of the adversary's invisible frontier...
...found jobs, a better-than-seasonal rise that brought total employment to 67,208,000, reported the Labor Department this week. Unemployment dropped seasonally by 201,000-to 3,459,000-pushing the number of unemployed in the U.S. work force below the 5% barrier (to 4.9%) for the first time in a year. Even more encouraging, the chronic sore spot of unemployment-those jobless for 15 weeks or more-fell 300,000 to about 900,000 in May; nearly half of those now seeking work have been out of jobs less than five weeks. Matched with these heartening employment...
...messiahs" announced that he meant to establish headquarters on the island, and the missionary priests resorted to a theatrical gesture. They divided the nave down the center with a row of benches, then called on all who dared deny the church to remain on the far side of the barrier. For seconds no one stirred. At last some of the oldest members of the congregation moved to the other side, and slowly, most of the rest followed...
...splendid show of costume and music (the chief instrument is the banjo-like samisen), of processions and dancing. Here, too, the story is the universal one of the resourceful servant, who in this case plays a serious role: he gets his disguised young master past a hostile mountain barrier. Among many felicities, the acting and formal dancing of Shoroku II,* as the retainer, stand...
...show in West Germany, Bonn's Defense Minister Franz-Josef Strauss climbed into a British Hawker Hunter, was whisked to 43,000 ft., broke through the sound barrier, then was brought down to buzz a Hannover airfield at a risky 100 ft. After receiving a diploma citing him as "Germany's fastest minister," Strauss jowled: "I felt safer than on the Autobahn...