Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President told him forcefully that any British move in that direction would bring on agitation in the U.S. for a withdrawal from the U.N. On the Middle East, the communiqué warned the Arab states and Israel not to use "force or the threat of force ... to violate the frontier or armistice lines." The communiqué warned that the U.S. and Britain had "made arrangements for joint discussions as to the nature of the action we should take in such an event." Actually, the U.S. and Britain already have their own separate stand-by plans for stepping in and stopping...
Adlai Stevenson and other "moderate" Democratic leaders have tried, understandably, to ignore the growing rift between the pro-Negro and anti-Negro wings of the party. Signs now appear that this will be more and more difficult. Adlai Stevenson finds himself cast as a villain by the liberal magazine Frontier, "the Voice of the New West." Cried Frontier last month: "As long as small colored boys can be murdered in Mississippi without protection of the law, Stevenson's moderate approach to reform will strike most Negroes as distressingly inadequate. And Stevenson's frequent trips into the South, along...
Pakistan over Kashmir and the North-West Frontier, Pakistani leaders have waited for a word of public support from Washington. To them, $450 million in past U.S. military and economic aid has simply not assuaged the sudden pain. Complains Pakistan, anchor of both the SEATO and Baghdad anti-Communist pacts: the more that neutral India and Egypt play up to the Reds, the more economic aid Washington seems eager to force upon them. Last week U.S. Ambassador Horace Hildreth † went on the Pakistani radio to quote figures showing that neutral nations have received one-twelfth as much monetary...
...emergency committee" proposed a new defense levy of $75 million-$50 for every man, woman and child in Israel (and the average national income is only $450 a year). Other recommendations: a ban on luxury imports, and conscription of persons between 35 and 45 to work in frontier settlements likely to face the first thrust of Arab attack...
...exerted before." But as for the works themselves, the Times declared: "The large, uncompromising canvases . . . have a monumental impermanence, show a defiance of Art and a kind of strange anonymity. They should be given the favorite American word of 'projects,' and seem intended for abandonment as the frontier advances, for are they not shock troops in the American invasion of painting...