Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Predictably it was Bobby Kennedy, the Administration's touch-football quarterback, who took the field in defense of the New Frontier's own honor. Rousting four Justice Department aides out of bed to accompany him, the Attorney General and three dogs set out at 5 a.m. along the towpath of the old Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. Where the path was not slick with ice, it was gooey with mud, but Bobby's scuffed Cordovan oxfords never faltered...
...there is little evidence that the U.S. has reconciled itself to an agonizing reappraisal. As so often before, the New Frontier has reacted on an ad hoc basis, and seems less sure of the future ramifications of U.S. actions than De Gaulle is of his. The Atlantic alliance still lives, but needs imaginative repair...
...challenge to the New Frontier was clear: If Republican Teddy Roosevelt could enforce physical fitness upon his staff, then why shouldn't Democrat Jack Kennedy do the same with McGeorge and Artie and even portly Pierre...
Soon Sasha was fed up with his homeland. From his technical school he stole 35 rubles, some stamps, and a pair of wire-cutters, headed for the frontier between Russia and Turkey. He got within a few yards of his goal. One night last November, as Sasha tried to clip his way through the barbed-wire frontier fence, a flare shot into the sky, alarm bells began to jangle, and border guards grabbed Sasha. Moralized Izvestia: "This character, a quite exceptional phenomenon in our country, has become a renegade, betrayed his friends, parents and country. Let him answer before Soviet...
...diplomatic fallout from le grand Charles's lofty isolationism rained down on those two favorites of the New Frontier, French Ambassador and Mme. Hervé Alphand. "Will De Gaulle's action affect the Alphands?" asked Washington Columnist Betty Beale. Apparently not, since the Alphands run what many people consider the only decent French restaurant in Washington. "I think some other French ambassador might be affected socially by what's happened," said the wife of one U.S. official, "but not the Alphands, because they entertain so beautifully." This judgment appeared a little premature. The perfect hosts proved pretty...