Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tread & Butter. On the Belgian-Netherlands frontier, a smuggler hauling 1,700 lbs. of butter drove through customs without stopping, put the skids to customs men's attempts to catch up by sowing the road behind him with globs of butter, dumped 200 lbs. before he finally ran out of gas and surrendered...
Behind this insincere reconciliation lay not the dream of Marxist brotherhood but power politics. What moved Gomulka to embrace Ulbricht's seedy puppet regime was one of the most powerful levers in Central European diplomacy-the future of the Oder-Neisse frontier between Poland and Germany. It is a question that agitates both sides of the Iron Curtain, and will play a large part in any future Western dickering with Khrushchev...
...want to warn you," he added, "that any discussion of a peace treaty means discussing the Eastern frontier question," i.e., risking endorsement of the present Oder-Neisse border with Poland and thus abandoning Germany's "lost territories" to the East. It was the Chancellor's clinching argument, and a specifically German one, which had less appeal outside (the London Economist commented icily that the West "will still fight for Berlin but it will not fight for Breslau...
...failure to have a course in Western history is indeed unfortunate. While Frederick Jackson Turner's thesis may not be in current vogue in the History Department, anyone interested in American history should be familiar with the Westward Movement. The influence of the frontier certainly did have a profound effect on American history; but many history concentrators graduate unaware of this fact. Several years ago a course was given on the literature of the West and South; it was also discontinued. At present, there is no course for those interested in either the Westward Movement or in the cultural history...
...University of Nebraska: "Twenty-eight years of teaching [college] science gave me the most fun I have ever had. It is fun to help students discover facts and laws unknown to them. [But] it does not take long before student and teacher have walked together out to the frontier of knowledge-a fine comradeship between an older and a younger generation. Each new generation of young scientists gets its happiness by explaining what was inscrutable to the previous generation...