Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Emperor Haile Selassie last week celebrated a great day in a career that has known many ups & downs. With golden scissors, Ethiopia's King of Kings, Lion of Judah snipped a ribbon and then drove triumphantly across a frontier to add to his domain the former Italian colony of Eritrea, which the Italians had carved out of old Ethiopia in the late 19th century...
Though National sells its products in 92 foreign countries, President Stanley Charles Allyn thinks that it still has worlds to conquer. Last week he set out to conquer at least a new frontier. For about $1,000,000, National will buy 80% control of the Computer Research Corp., a Los Angeles company which produces small and relatively inexpensive ($35,000 to $245,000) electronic computers for the armed forces and industry. In Computer Research, Allyn is buying a big stake in the future of electronic brains. With the help of Computer's staff, he hopes to turn out electronic...
...foul weather off the Norwegian coast last week. The allied fleets broke off operations in the north, headed south into Kiel Bay to interdict a simulated enemy attack across the Kiel Canal into Denmark. Since the east end of the canal is only 40 miles from the East German frontier, Mainbrace's planes were unarmed and the pilots were sternly warned to avoid Soviet territory...
...crane is a vanishing aristocrat. Like human monarchs, it has had trouble adjusting to modern times and keeping its royal line going. Most of the whooping cranes disappeared with the American and Canadian frontier. Today the crane is the rarest bird on the continent; only 25 are known to exist...
Barzani's army stood poised to strike for three months. Then, after it had become amply clear that the U.S. would resist aggression in Korea and elsewhere, the Russians withdrew Barzani from the frontier. But his army still lurks just across the border, poised and ready to strike at a word from the Kremlin. U.S. military observers describe it as a first-class fighting outfit, with its own tactical air group manned by Soviet-trained Kurdish pilots...