Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...analogy, currently popular in military circles, goes back to the nation's frontier days. Two men, their faces twisted in hatred and fear, confront each other across a card table. Each holds a revolver within inches of the other's breast, pointed unwaveringly at the heart. There they sit, each with the sure power to cause instant death, yet afraid to squeeze the trigger. For the one who shoots first will himself be killed-by the reflex action of a dying...
...Fashions. Prototype models of superb British swept-wing jets annually impress the world at the Farnborough air show, yet the R.A.F.'s Fighter Command still depends for its frontier strength on a nucleus of Sabre jets, supplied by the U.S. and Canada. Britain's V-class bombers (Valiants, Vulcans and Victors) are still not operational, and to deliver its atom bombs, Bomber Command relies on the twin-engine Canberra, now officially classed as a "medium bomber." British designs are often first-rate, but British production is sluggish. The major difficulty is that the British Cabinet is still unsure...
...young soldier he has courage, stamina and ambition. He admits: "I desired the supreme power ... to become my full self before I died." As emperor he proves ruthless and gifted, fighting the imperial wars, defending the Roman peace, reorganizing Britain and the Rhine frontier. Above all, the book shows how the soldier-monarch, despite his successes in holding together the large, unwieldy empire, turns inward and becomes more and more the scholarly stoic, meditating on history, immortality and death. His last words are: "Let us try, if we can, to enter into death with open eyes...
...China for 20 years. In the Communist North, a 20-man French mission hopes to keep "the French presence" in the Viet Minh state, and do business there; there is even talk of French help to rebuild the vital strategic railroad from Hanoi to Langson on the Red China frontier...
...Hunter is a white man whose love of Africa is different from Camara Laye's, but probably no less intense. He came there as one of the earliest professional white hunters and his TALES OF THE AFRICAN FRONTIER [written with Daniel Mannix; 308 pp.; Harper; $4) is highly satisfying armchair-adventure stuff. Hunter's heroes are African pioneers. A good example of the breed is Colonel Ewart Grogan, now 80 and living in Kenya, who started in 1898 to walk from the Cape of Good Hope to the Sudan to map out a railroad route dreamed...