Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next day: "The presidential press conference, once a tiger burning bright in the forests of the Washington night, has become a toothless old animal." Wrote New York Times Washington Bureau Chief James Reston (who had earlier in the week wryly cited the Peace Corps as the only New Frontier program that has surpassed either promises or expectations) : "As a public relations stance, the President's attitude has its advantages. It gives the impression that somehow today's problems will yield to patience and persistence. But will they?" Columnist Doris Fleeson got a ribald laugh out of Kennedy...
...State Department men tell it, White House staffers play a game they call "Frontier." The first player starts off by naming a plausible shift in New Frontier personnel-like "Bundy for Rusk." The man whose turn is next must come up with a reasonable candidate for the displaced person's job-as in "Rusk for Stevenson." A player must drop out of the game if he comes up with a patently implausible shift-such as "Stevenson for McNamara." It is remarkable how often the game starts off with Secretary of State Dean Rusk as the first to be replaced...
...satellites would be a juicy market for Bonn's heavy industrial goods. But Communist Poland, for one, kept insisting on a major political surrender before any deal was signed: full diplomatic recognition of Wladyslaw Gomulka's Polish regime, and acceptance of Poland's Oder-Neisse western frontier, which includes a big chunk of pre-World War II Germany. With 14 million angry refugees from the East added to its population since the war, the Bonn government could hardly swallow that kind of proposition...
...involved than by the fact that Pakistan Foreign Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto could travel to Peking and negotiate a separate deal on a chunk of Kashmir with the Communist enemy, while the talks with India were still going on, and while Chinese troops still menaced India's Himalayan frontier. It just might be that Pakistan's Bhutto was using the Chinese agreement as a club to scare India's government into making compromises on Kashmir. In any case, he said, "we are under no obligation to explain these matters to anyone . . . We have to pursue our national...
...work force was out of work in February, the highest number in 15 months. Some economists blamed the increased unemployment on bad weather, noting that the biggest drops were in the weather-sensitive construction, farming and durable-goods industries. Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, echoing a familiar New Frontier theme, blamed the trouble on something more basic. "Our economy today is simply not expanding fast enough," he said. "It must do so if we are to avoid an economic downturn...