Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clicked and officials of the two republics and their ladies danced Dominican and Haitian méringues. Before the historic day was over, the two Presidents had agreed to 1) take joint measures against Communism, 2) grant tariff and other trade concessions, 3) arrange supervision of migratory workers crossing the frontier, 4) work out rules for treatment of each other's political exiles...
which patrol the Yugoslav frontier...
...valleys are Thais;* in the mountains live Muongs. Both belong to the Thai Federation, part of Bao Dai's Viet Nam state. Last December, while the French were fighting desperately to hold the port of Hanoi, Communist forces drove into the Thai and Muong country, pushed the French frontier guards back 100 miles to the outpost town of Lai Chau. The Communists then set about winning over Thais and Muongs...
Shelley plays Frenchie Fontaine, a New Orleans gambling queen who packs a dainty pistol just above the garter. She sets up shop in the frontier town of Bottleneck to track down the local varmints who killed her father. In the course of a plot with as many turns as her corset strings, Shelley has all the fun of acting like a trollop, then finally turns out to be a perfect lady, worthy of Sheriff Joel McCrea himself...
...border railroad station of Lowu, where Hong Kong transships its imports to Communist China. Red-capped coolies unloaded copper wire from Europe, office supplies from the U.S., military truck tires from Japan, and natural rubber from Malaya. From the Chinese side of the border, past unsmiling Communist frontier guards, coolies carried the mainland food which the colony gets in return...