Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lincoln blueprint: "An early-warning net must be thrown around the almost inaccessible northern fringes of the hemisphere . . . All the parts [of the warning net] must automatically guide the defenders to the attackers . . . Fighter air bases and guided-missile launching sites must be arranged in echelons, from the air frontier to the American industrial heartland." The estimated cost of such a program, said the Alsops, was $16 billion to $20 billion...
...that the British plane had been out of bounds, but saw no reason why "the lives of seven British airmen were callously taken for a navigational error. The Russians repeatedly fired on the Lincoln and mercilessly destroyed it when it was actually west of and within the allied zonal frontier...
Nairobi, the colony's capital, has not really been touched much by the war the white settlers are waging against the Mau Mau terror. You can still walk through the main thoroughfares after midnight alone. Nairobi remains comparatively safe, like a near frontier U.S. town of the 1880s, with Gary Cooper for U.S. marshal. But up-country is another part of the world...
Already this new frontier in American retailing is threatening to change the merchandising and shopping habits of all the larger metropolitan areas. In Los Angeles last year only a third of the area's department store volume was accounted for in downtown stores. Framingham's now Shoppers' World is typical of the retailers rush for the suburbs, and is typical of the markets gradual change in tactics to meet a change in American way of living...
Silver City, N. Mex. (pop. 7,000) was beginning to look like a frontier outpost. Townspeople carried guns, and a detachment of state police patrolled the streets keeping the peace. The enemy this time was a small group of moviemakers-some of whom are alleged to be Communists -filming a semi-documentary about miners. The picture, Salt of the Earth, is sponsored by the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (ousted from the C.I.O. in 1950 for being Communist-dominated), and the cast is composed largely of Mexican-American miners and their families from the Silver City region...