Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What games did Puritan children like? How did people get along on the Western frontier? What was it like to live in Chicago 100 years ago? With the help of 1,200 pictures and a 250,000-word text, Historian Davidson has answered these questions and many more. His handsome, two-volumed Life in America will delight anybody able...
...society's organizing. What is even more disturbing is youth's certainty that Government will take care of it-a feeling which continues despite a good deal of political distrust of Government. Reports TIME'S Seattle Bureau: "The Pacific Northwest is only yesterday removed from the frontier, but the 'root, hog, or die' spirit has almost disappeared. Into its place has moved a curious dependence on the biggest new employer-Government. A 28-year-old aerodynamics specialist at Boeing says: 'I hope to work toward an income of $500 or $600 a month, after...
...only the specialists can understand it. How can the specialists and their knowledge be used to bring men together instead of setting them farther apart? Last week, at New York University, a group of scholars drawn from five major campuses had a bold suggestion: a special course, called "the frontier of knowledge," that covers everything from plants to paleontology, from the stars to the "world of quanta...
...hundred thousand people had come to Rawalpindi's broad green Company Gardens to hear Liaquat Ali Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan. Liaquat was in troubled territory: the Northwest frontier is full of tribal jealousies; on one side Afghanistan disputes its borders, on the other lies rich Kashmir, held by India and coveted by Pakistan...
...eyeballs. One of his arms was torn off. Later, after Liaquat had died in hospital (see NEWS IN PICTURES), police identified the dead assassin as Said Akbar, 29, an Afghan. The weapon he had used was a Mauser-type pistol, probably made by native craftsmen of the frontier, where gunmaking is a common household industry...