Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thanks to Jackie Kennedy's antiques program, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe and Teddy Roosevelt might recognize some of the White House trappings. But more recent Presidents would probably have a hard time finding their way around the place and its premises. For if the New Frontier has done nothing else, it has certainly changed 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue-and, for that matter, the ways of presidential life...
...graduate of Swarthmore and a Rhodes scholar, Gordon won high Kennedy marks during his 22 months on the council while on leave from Williams. He cannot be tidily classified as belonging to any particular school of economic thought-indeed, like so many pragmatic New Frontier economists, he has a knack for saying vague things precisely. "Of course," he says, "I believe in the positive use of fiscal policy to help in the stabilization of the economy." But he prefers to let ''the virtues of the free market system" solve economic problems-at least whenever free enterprise seems feasible...
...admiring New Frontier colleague says, best described as a "hard-headed liberal...
...strong Chinese patrols began penetrating the NEFA border, occupying Longju and Towang and threatening Walong. For once, Nehru was badly shaken. He said: "From time immemorial the Himalayas have provided us with a magnificent frontier. We cannot allow that barrier to be penetrated because it is also the principal barrier to India." But the barrier was being daily penetrated. Ten months ago, Nehru appointed Lieut. General Brij Kaul, 50, to command the NEFA area. Then, without consulting any of his military men, Nehru publicly ordered Kaul to drive out the Chinese invaders of NEFA...
...thank -you-ma'ams, and its grinds are exceeding fine. But only a purist could carp: it is a spectacularly busty pageant, flashily costumed, dizzyingly aswarm with near-nude (pasties here and here, a twinkly bikini there) show girls. If it owes a greater debt to the New Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas than to Minsky's old National Winter Garden theater on Houston Street, that is the way Minsky wants it. The nearest thing to a striptease in the proceedings is a number in which a covey of chorus boys gingerly pluck parts of the costume from...