Word: frontier
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WHEN scientists, a cautious lot, are on the frontier of knowledge, they are fond of the word "perhaps." At Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory they like the word so much that they named one of their most exciting machines the Perhapsatron S-3. Perhaps the Perhapsatron and its descendants will win from the world's oceans enough energy to fill man's electric power needs for as long as the solar system exists. For the latest steps in taming the H-bomb for peacetime power, see SCIENCE, Toward H-Power...
...flat-bladed, freshly honed bayonet. Motionless, they stared across the brook into thick underbrush where no human figure was to be seen. They were two of the thousands of 12?-a-month Turkish mehmetciks who keep sleepless vigil over the 367-mile border which is the only frontier between Russia and the rest of the world (save for a small, frozen strip of Norway) that the U.S. is committed to defend...
Second, the research done by professors contributes greatly to undergraduate instruction. The faculty member who is not working on the frontier of knowledge is not, as a rule, a "great" teacher in the real sense...
Last week the Madrid government finally permitted its tightly controlled press to report that the Spanish garrison at Ifni had taken a beating. The first official casualty list enumerated 62 dead, more than 100 wounded. The government admitted that the Spanish defenders had abandoned the frontier outposts to the invading Moroccan irregulars, and had drawn back to regroup around the town of Sidi Ifni itself. Farther south in the Spanish Sahara, the Moroccan Liberation Army announced an offensive on Al Auin, declared that five desert outposts had been "liberated," with Spanish losses of 120 dead...
...governor did not turn his head to look out at the rainswept streets of Goulimine, which were thronged with khaki-clad, black-turbaned members of the irregular Liberation Army force that launched the attack on the Ifni enclave three weeks ago; jeeps and trucks sped past toward the Ifni frontier with loads of food and supplies for the attackers. By a curious coincidence, the governor happens to be a longtime collaborator of the Moroccan Liberation Army, whose most fanatic members, their fight against France won with independence, moved south last year to the borders of the areas still controlled...