Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are only six University professors. To be one a man must be actively engaged in some frontier of research, and Zechariah Chafee's frontier is in the area of fundamental human rights. He finds, however, that "sometimes I don't even know what I'm teaching--history, law, literature all enter into it." Chafee has lately been using Social Sciences 120 as a proving ground for his theories; what he likes about the course is "the willingness on the part of the students to engage in discussion. It isn't very common to have it in a hundred-member...
...week, and the Communist-led Viet Minh attacked. The Communist objective was to cut off the small federation of Thai states near the border of China's Yunnan province. The Thais are loyal to the French, and 7,000 of their sturdy mountaineers make up the Northwest Tonkin Frontier Guard, one of the French Union's crack guerrilla outfits. But the Thai states are connected with the strongly defended Red River delta country only by overland trails and water routes...
...roads, only 5,000 miles of them good enough for a truck. In the event of a Soviet attack on Turkey, the eastern Mediterranean port of Iskenderun (Alexandretta) would be vital; 360 miles northeast of it is Erzurum, headquarters of the Third Army which controls the Soviet-Turkish frontier. Yet there was no direct road between the two places...
Wadsworth is probably a little overenthusiastic. Furthermore, Turkey already has 367 miles of Soviet frontier to defend. If Iran falls behind the Iron Curtain, 290 miles more of Soviet frontier (plus a likely invasion route, past Mt. Ararat) will be added to Turkey's defense problem. From a military point of view, Eisenhower's right flank is certainly stuck away the hell and gone out into enemy territory...
This omission of what is perhaps the first necessity of a good novel is not absolutely fatal to The President's Lady. "Old Hickory's" life was packed with enough variety to have roused the envy of Anthony Adverse. He knew the frontier and the arts of Indian fighting like the palm of his hand. He loved a wild financial gamble, but he could change overnight into a sober storekeeper and patient farmer. A capable lawyer and a judge, he pored for hours over classic volumes on military strategy, kept a string of race horses, fought pistol duels...