Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nowadays for following football very closely (he is faculty representative to the Pacific Coast Conference), Seaborg does play golf (low 90s), swims in his backyard pool. One current project: search for the next synthetic element (No. 103). "The inner rewards," says he, "are very great. Science is the new frontier, and we all like adventure...
...beaver pelt, once the currency of a frontier, has had a treacherous history. In the 1840s the fashion for men's beaver toppers collapsed with the rise of the silk hat, a fashion change that ended the great Western fur brigades and the day of the mountain man. In the 1950s beaver has been slipping from favor in women's coats. "Ladies," says Maine trapper Jasper Haynes, "just aren't wearing beaver coats...
...Gaziantep, near the tense Turco-Syrian frontier, Republicans had missed victory in the province by only 200 votes. Two days after the election, assembling ostensibly to mark the 34th anniversary of the Turkish Republic, a crowd of Republicans burst into shouts of "Stolen votes!" mobbed Democratic Party headquarters, wrecked the city hall. In an exchange of stones and gunshots, a policeman and an eleven-year-old boy bystander were killed. At Mersin on the south coast, a Republican was shot and killed in a similar demonstration...
...newsmen asked the Foreign Ministry's official spokesman if Syria planned a diplomatic protest. Astonished, the official asked who had reported the incident, was told Bizri had. "Well, that's a new one," said the official. The Turkish-Syrian border was sleepily quiet. Turkish forces on the frontier (three armored brigades, three infantry divisions) were in defensive positions, and travelers along the Syrian side of the line saw no evidence at all that the Syrian army was bracing itself for an attack...
Slipped Pretense. But Russia kept the drums of war rolling. Pointedly, the Kremlin named Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, "the hero of Stalingrad" and former Red viceroy of Poland, to command Russian troops on the Turkish frontier, and announced that "atomic maneuvers" had been conducted. (The West retaliated with an announcement that NATO had decided to hold land, sea and air exercises on Turkey's "southwestern coast," i.e., in the direction of Syria, beginning this week...