Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From then on, El Campesino's chief idea was to escape. In 1944, he managed to get as far as Teheran, and thought he was safe. An informer tipped off the Russians, and one day the NKVD closed in, kidnaped him and hauled him back across the frontier. For a time he was shut up in Lubianka prison and put through various physical and psychological "persuasions" to sign a phony confession of spying for the British and Americans. He refused, and then began four years of prison camps in Siberia and Turkestan. His brief descriptions of Lubianka, the slave...
...Yugoslavs tried to flee to Paris via the Orient Express. Carrying bread, jugs of water, and pills to stifle coughing, they sealed themselves in the metal battery boxes slung under the cars of the once-famed luxury train, but were caught by frontier guards near Trieste. The government charged that the fugitives were members of a subversive, anti-Tito movement, but in court last week the defendants denied it. Said one, a 21-year-old blonde: she wanted to go to Paris because she was in love with a student who always traveled the battery-box route. Said another...
FCChairman Paul Walker hopes TV-hungry communities will not expect miracles overnight. Says he: "Television will not gallop to its new frontier. It will proceed at a snail's pace...
...short answer is that they have wrought no miracles. Atomic medicine has cured no disease that cannot be cured without it. But in five years there has been time to explore only a fraction of the new frontier-and meanwhile there have come discoveries in three directions that are worth cheering about...
...early American conviction of divine sponsorship grew with the richness of the land and the vastness of the frontier. Prosperity was regarded as a divine right, to be worked for-but always ultimately awarded. The beloved combination of morals and mechanics called the "Pursuit of Happiness" became an article of national faith. So did a strange feeling of national "innocency." The Founding Fathers had permanently crystallized the images of "a virtuous new democratic world" and "a vicious tyrannical older world" of Europe. Down to the 20th century, Americans grew up with a feeling that a higher group morality, as well...