Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...along India's northern frontier has nearly quintupled the foreign press corps operating out of New Delhi. Some are oldtimers returning, others are first-timers. Few match the experience of India possessed by the trio of TIME correspondents on the scene...
...legislation through the House, the President was wary of doing anything more to anger Southern Congressmen. He had to consider, too, that on Election Day 1962, the promised executive order might hurt Democrats in the South more than it would help Democrats in the North-the New Frontier could count on most of the Northern Negro vote anyway...
...cultural wagon boss on the New Frontier, Jackie, escorted by Arthur Schlesinger Jr., also took in the opening of an exhibit of South American paintings at the Pan American Union, and in a zebra-patterned suit seemed to have an edge on the paintings themselves...
...effort at marking the frontier, and the border with Tibet has generally been classified as "undefined." Red China was most interested in Ladakh's northeastern corner, where lies the Aksai Chin plateau, empty of nearly everything but rocks, sky and silence. For centuries, a caravan route wound through the Aksai Chin (one reason the Chinese say the plateau is theirs is that Aksai Chin means "China's Desert of White Stone"), leading from Tibet around the hump of the lofty Kunlun range to the Chinese province of Sinkiang. In 1956 and 1957 the Chinese built a paved road...
...missionaries. Only ten of the nation's 275 kibbutzim agreed to the idea, and even then the first team that went out to a Negev collective last year found it hard to make friends. The second group, twelve young Germans installed at Kibbutz Ba-han on the Jordan frontier, has had an easier time. Each morning they rise at 5:30 a.m. and head for their assigned chores. Some work on tractors, others in cauliflower gardens or the citrus orchards. Admits a leader of the collective: "We were short of hands until they came along. They are earning their...