Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miles, another the full distance of 6,300 miles, still another into orbit, brought the Thor IRBM into the training stage and the hands of combat troops. The Navy sent the nuclear submarine Nautilus under the North Pole, made huge psychological warfare headlines, opened up a new strategic frontier...
Tusked Apparitions. Slowly the frontier of Brazilian settlement was pushing west from the coast into the jungle that sheltered the shadowy Xetás. In 1952 a gang of land clearers captured a naked young Xetá girl. While they were still debating what to do with their prize, they found themselves surrounded by weird-looking Indian men with tusks sticking out of their lower lips. The Indians spoke no words. They drew back the arrows on their bows; the girl ran to join them; and they all melted silently into the jungle...
Scientist Loureiro believes the Xetás are the most primitive humans surviving in the modern world, is trying to persuade the Brazilian government to seal them off in a jungle preserve before they are pushed to the wall by the advancing frontier. "It would be a crime against science," he says, "to destroy Xetá culture now. The Xetás must be saved intact in their natural jungle surroundings-at least until we can complete our study of them...
...pose difficult to maintain in view of the fact that the International Congress of Psychotherapy at Barcelona in September was centered on existential analysis. At this meeting Dr. May explained why its influence in the U.S. has so far been negligible. A pragmatic tradition tracing back to frontier days, he contended, has made Americans a nation of doers, suspicious of theorizing or abstract speculation. But just beneath the conscious surface. Dr. May saw in the American character a rich subsoil of concern for "knowing by doing." This brought him around to Kierkegaard, who proclaimed: "Truth exists for the individual only...
...while Russia argued that Poland's western frontier should run along the Oder and Western Neisse rivers, Britain and the U.S. held out for the Oder and Eastern Neisse. Unable to settle this detail, the Big Three agreed at Potsdam to postpone final determination of Poland's border until the final peace treaty with Germany. In the meantime, they decided, Poland should have the real estate...