Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Physicists look and act like ordinary men, but when they get together, many of the things they talk about approach the frontier of fantasy. Last week the American Physical Society, in convention in Manhattan, heard plenty of frontier talk. A few of the high-level matters discussed...
Since the Suez invasion, Iraqi, Syrian and Saudi Arabian troops have moved into Jordan to "protect" it; the Syrians and Saudis are still there. The Israelis watch edgily from across a 330-mile border, and at some future date might not mind advancing to the Jordan River, a natural frontier some 30 miles east from the present boundary, if they thought they could get away with it. The unceasing Arab nationalist agitation among Jordan's large Palestinian refugee population has moved young King Hussein to offer to give up his throne if that would advance the cause of Arab...
...guise of a sadhu, or holy man, and from then on. all would be well. This faith has long made their village a favorite target for the hordes of self-appointed holy men (estimated total: 8,000,000) who roam all over India like carnival medicine men in the frontier U.S., wandering the face of the land in search of a quick rupee, with little to attest to their powers but a loin cloth, a straggly beard and a fanatic mien...
...Divorced. Alfried Felix Alwin Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 49, munitions-rich head of the German industrial dynasty; by Vera Krupp, 47, German-born U.S. citizen, onetime New York socialite and part owner of Las Vegas' New Frontier casino; after four years of marriage, no children; in a defaulted suit which allows her no claim to Krupp's $150 million holdings; in Las Vegas...
MISCELLANY The Last Frontier. In New Glasgow, N.S., the News printed a classified ad: "WANTED-A good woman who wishes a good home. Will marry if necessary-Charlie Morrison...