Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prince Ali had gone up north to hunt, and to look in on his plantations near the Soviet frontier, but planned to return to Teheran for the Shah's 35th birthday celebration. When he arrived at the airstrip at Gurgan, the pilot of his single-engined Piper pointed to the snow-capped mountains wreathed in ominous clouds, but the prince was anxious to start home. Before he took off, Ali did an act of kindness: into his plane he loaded an old peasant ill with tuberculosis, who needed immediate hospitalization. Then the plane, carrying prince and peasant, headed...
...shivered with cold as the car rolled westward. After the second day, he could not eat his dry bread. By the end of the sixth day, his drinking water was used up. It took the slow freight that carried his crate three days to get to the Czech frontier at Bratislava. It stood for seven days on a siding near Prague before moving on to East Germany. By the time the freight chugged into Hamburg last week, Komoroczky had been trapped in his crate for 13 days...
ACROSS the wind-blown plains of eastern Washington, up through the cool, forested hills of northern-Idaho and the mountains and finger valleys of western Montana, men talk in frontier terms of manifest destiny, and call their northwest U.S. land an Inland Empire. It is a towering land, with long, lonely reaches and stupendous, high-country scenery, proud, self-assured and close to its pioneer beginnings. A geographic unit, hemmed by natural barriers, it once almost became a state (as big as all New England, New York, Delaware and Maryland) called Lincoln. Congress approved in 1886, but Grover Cleveland pocket...
Great River could easily have drowned in a torrent of blood, but Horgan's interest in the people and the land is always deeper than any temptation to deal with adventure. There are excellent descriptions of Comanche Indian life, of the cowboy, of frontier towns. But the real triumph of Horgan's book is his own intense love for the Rio Grande country, which he has woven into his fine prose...
Safe in Sicily. Said 50-year-old Luigi Crevatini on finding that his house was on the wrong side of the frontier: "Until 1944 I lived in Fiume. Then I saw how things were going, and I moved to Capo-distria. When Capodistria became Zone