Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speech-elaborately phrased, rich with allusions-sounds like another language amid the staccato din of the New Frontier's verbal shorthand. With his ironic, self-deprecating wit, he often appears to be some misplaced elfin uncle among the intense young men who laugh at their well-worn house jokes only rarely-and hardly ever at themselves...
...lonely man, he seems even lonelier in the forced togetherness of New Frontier society. In a group that sees conversation as a necessary delay between acts, he relishes talk for its own sake. In a group that venerates the quick decision, he is a ponderer. He remains an introspective man among the professionally outgoing, a paunchy tennis player in the midst of a touch-football squad, an elder statesman in a society whose main concession to age is to switch the oldtimer from pass-catching end to blocking back...
...Frontier-on-Seine. If some of Charles de Gaulle's dreams of European leadership seem at times more suited to the age of Charlemagne, he has nevertheless surrounded himself with imaginative, superbly trained ministers whose eyes are fixed firmly on the future. Seasoned civil servants of intellect, shrewdness and long acquaintance, notably Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville and Louis Joxe, who handles Algeria, still hold the most exposed and sensitive jobs in his government...
...place of professional politicians (before De Gaulle, all ministers had to have seats in the Assembly) De Gaulle has brought into his Cabinet a new covey of experts, many of them young (five are 40 or under), whose versatility and expertise constitute a Seine-side New Frontier. Many have survived the rigorous 28-month course at the Ecole Nationale d' Administration (ENA), a blue-chip finishing school for civil service comers that was founded by De Gaulle in 1945 to supply the government with resourceful, apolitical technocrats. Others are lawyers, economists, businessmen, bankers...
...towns and villages in India's North East Frontier Agency were blacked out from dusk to dawn last week. At the front, an uneasy truce was maintained as Indian troops warily waited to see if the Red Chinese forces would keep their pledge to withdraw 12½ miles behind the lines they occupied on Nov. 7, 1959. But while the guns were silent, the diplomats were at work...