Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last Frontier? Poet-Novelist Franklin Folsom, a Rhodes scholar and onetime lettuce packer, may be just the agent to swell that number. He has illuminated his gloomy subject with literary style, and Exploring American Caves−with its scores of enchanting photographs and its bold plunge into virtually virgin writing territory−may prove to be classic cave literature. "Caves," proclaims Spelunker Folsom, "are, in a sense, the last frontier. [Those] who explore the underground night have yet to reach the end of even the best-known caverns in this country...
...individual grants, free grain and flour, and bank credits of $2,500 for the building of houses and barns) were offered to peasants and workers to stake their future in the Eastern regions. Propaganda painted the effort as a "Great Adventure," the prospect as the opening of a "New Frontier." Trainloads of Russian hopefuls trekking eastward this year began what promised to be one of the great population migrations of recent times...
...history is obvious. But it is as vastly enjoyable armchair adventure that Narratives of Exploration and Adventure can be put into the hands of anyone capable of being stirred by great undertakings. Georgia-born Engineer Frémont, intelligent and fearless as well as an accomplished scientist, imprisoned the frontier in his reports and maps. His pictures of Indian life, the buffalo herds, the astonishing terrain, are among the best recorded. Though he never lost sight of his practical objectives, he never ceased to be exhilarated by the wild beauty of his surroundings. In the Rockies, as he was about...
...mont persisted in carrying out his mission to the letter. When the Indians tried to use bluff, he bluffed back, and won. He won and kept for a lifetime the regard of Kit Carson and other mighty mountain men-proof enough that he had the courage and frontier skills to go with his looks and brains...
Austria has made numerous protests, without effect, about what Austrians call the "murder fences." But last week Austria was astonished to receive a note from the Hungarian Foreign Office saying that within three months the entire frontier would be cleared of "border obstacles." While Austrians were speculating whether Rakosi or the Russians were responsible, squads of Hungarian soldiers began dismantling the barbed wire. A new thought occurred to the Austrians: if the Iron Curtain is really raised, how will Rakosi keep his Hungarians at home? Said Austrian Interior Minister Oskar Helmer: "Soon we will have all of Hungary in Austria...