Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outer provinces-North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei-and he found it "the most fascinating assignment in nearly three years out here." He felt like James Brooke, the "white rajah," landing in Sarawak in the 18405 and seeing "what no educated eye had ever gazed on." In the jungle frontier, he retraced the steps of Conrad and was disconcerted to find characters still liv ing who might have stepped out of a Conrad novel...
...dozen Harvard Young Democrats rode into friendly New Frontier territory ever Spring vacation, interviewed a constellation of Administration and Congressional leaders, and emerged from the Capitol replenished with liberal conviction...
...makers. His next step was to raise price supports on dairy products. With the milk-butter-cheese glut worsening, Freeman has since retreated and lowered the dairy supports. His current program for dairy products consists of trying to promote the consumption of milk by persuading the President and New Frontier officials to be photographed drinking it. As for himself, Freeman gulps gallons of milk a week...
...were arrested in Switzerland after they allegedly put pressure on the son and daughter of Dr. Paul-Jens Goercke, a West German electronic-guidance expert employed at Military Factory 333. As Swiss police told it, the agents persuaded Heidi Goercke, 25, and her brother Hans, 21, to cross the frontier from Freiburg, Germany, and warned them that they must talk their father into coming home from Egypt or else he would face "serious" trouble. Eavesdropping on the conversation, forewarned Swiss detectives tossed the Israeli operatives into jail, charged them with coercion and operating illegally on behalf of a foreign state...
...helping to change their faith's public image as a fat-cat church in suburban captivity. To these mission priests, the Inner City is what Father James Gusweller, 39, of St. Matthew's and St. Timothy's on Manhattan's West Side, calls "the new frontier of Christianity." The Rev. Nicholas Kouletsis, 39, rector of the East Los Angeles Inner City Mission Project, bluntly describes it as "the battle line...