Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mills does not wear either label. "The only politics I ever knew," he once said, "is to try to do the right thing. I don't know where that puts me." He usually votes for New Frontier bills on the floor of the House. But last year he refused to support the Administration's medicare bill, and he is considerably less casual about budget deficits than the Administration is. As a power in the middle, Mills can, within his realm of jurisdiction, tilt the House one way or the other. As Mills goes, so is his committee likely...
...eagle-eyed young scout on the New Frontier, Richard Nathan Goodwin could see only bright horizons. Although not yet 30 at the time, and possessing no pertinent experience, he became Jack Kennedy's closest adviser on Latin America, wrote the President's 1961 Alliance for Progress speech. Shifting to the State Department as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs, he urged Kennedy to pay a state visit to Colombia and Venezuela. The President had some doubts: "Goodwin, if this doesn't work, you can just keep on going south." But the trip was a triumph...
...Institutionalized racism" pervades American society, a local social worker declared yesterday. He accused New Frontier liberals of "implicitly paying allegiance" to it when they spoke of Negroes as if they were different from whites...
...British raj, which once controlled India's northwest frontier province of Kashmir, exacted a token annual tribute of two Kashmiri shawls and three handkerchiefs from the maharajah. Never since has the price of peace been as small. In the years after independence in 1947 split the Indian subcontinent into the sovereign states of India and Pakistan, the two nations have paid with strife and bloodshed to establish their conflicting claims over the disputed region. Last week, after 15 years of bitter wrangling, Indian and Pakistani delegates finally met in the Pakistan capital of Rawalpindi to seek a solution...
...crowds dutifully waving Chinese and Mongolian flags, Tsedenbal was put through the usual routine of toasts, banquets and fulsome speeches. Then, on the same day that Red China announced plans to define its borders with Pakistan, Tsedenbal and Chou En-lai signed a treaty fixing the 2,500-mile frontier between their two countries...