Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scheduled for 1960, should be advanced to an earlier date. For weeks the talk in the Saar's beerhalls has been of Der Tag X-the day the customs barriers between the Saar and Germany would be pulled down and moved west to the Saar's French frontier. In anticipation of the day when the mark replaced the franc, Volkswagen dealers alone booked 7,000 advance orders. Also heavy were orders for German TV, radio and appliances, which are priced 30% to 40% lower than French models...
...Frontier. With the ocean now transformed from a barrier to a new and menacing frontier from which guided missiles could be launched upon U.S. cities, the Navy's concern with oceanography has expanded. That concern has brought U.S. oceanographers money, men and resources they never dreamed of before the war, made their specialty perhaps the fastest-growing science in the world. The oceanographic fleet has grown to twelve ocean-going vessels backed by a swarm of small craft and expanding shore establishments full of expensive apparatus. The Russians have proved equally alert to the ocean's dangers...
Harold Thomas has spent most of his adult life following Rotary's twin ideals. Says he: "I think Rotary day and night." Born in a tent in the wilds of frontier New Zealand (his middle name honors the Maori chief whose wife delivered him), he fought in France in World War I, went back to Auckland to become manager of a tiny furniture company. He soon took over, expanded the company until it now spreads through New Zealand. He joined Rotary in 1923, only two years after the club got to New Zealand. As the "NZers" flocked into Rotary...
...Space - Man's Last Frontier (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). The peacetime uses of space-flight research. An inspection tour of a manned missile, conducted by the producers of Omnibus at the new Avco Research Cen ter in Wilmington, Mass...
...Frontier College operates on a tiny budget: $70,000 this year, most from private gifts, part from the Canadian government. But since 1899 it has taught more than 250,000 men-some of whom have taught a thing or two to the teachers. The Rt. Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes Jr., Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts, who learned about Frontier College from Fellow Yaleman Ben Spock, was a teacher in an Ontario construction camp in 1928. Recalls Bishop Stokes (who answered to the camp tag, "Slim"): "I asked the carpenter boss, 'Can I have some 18-inch spreaders...