Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week the points at issue between the two sides had narrowed down to two minor ones: the French insisted on equal French representation in the municipal governments of five towns, and that the Tunisians were unwilling to grant; and the French wanted military control of the Libyan frontier (to prevent Arab infiltrators coming in from the east), and that Premier Ben Amar was unwilling to yield. Faure was about to give in, when an irate lobby representing French planters (the colons) and civil servants in Tunisia brought their powerful pressure to bear...
Davy Crockett, popular "King of the Wild Frontier," whose ballad, television series, and coonskin caps have made him the new idol of America's children, was actually a vain political stooge in real life, two College professors agreed yesterday...
...King of the Wild Frontier's real story, according to Miller and Schlesinger, is different from the words of the ballad and the Times. Davy, it seems, was an ordinary soldier in Tennessee when the Whig Party, defeated by President Jackson, decided that it, too, needed "someone in a coonskin cap who was a man of the people...
...show is Sammy Davis Jr., 29, who in the past four months has become one of the hottest acts in the nation's gaudier nightclubs-Las Vegas' Last Frontier, Hollywood's Giro's, Miami Beach's Copa City. Last week Davis was packing them in at Manhattan's Copacabana, and columnists were hurling exclamation points. Variety's verdict: "In the main, socko." Yet Davis has been doing much the same act since before the war, sometimes without making enough money to buy a new pair of pants...
Besides the new plants, there was plenty of other progress on the atomic frontier last week...