Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...victory, but it didn't make much difference to the legislative future. The results merely increased the already lopsided Democratic Senate majority to 68-32; and the performance of the 87th Congress showed that a big Democratic majority does not necessarily mean clear sailing for New Frontier legislation...
...illegal underground blast within their boundaries. The evidence would come from many unmanned seismic recorders in sealed boxes scattered throughout the two countries. On every Wednesday (why this must be the day is not explained), each nation would fly the recorders to a neutral team on its frontier. Eventually, the records would be inspected by a panel of 15 scientists from neutral countries. If nine of the 15 decide that there has been an explosion, the guilty nation would be declared a violator, and steps would be taken to hand over its $5 billion to the other country. Thus testing...
...more dangerous to the Indians is the Chinese attack on the North-East Frontier Agency, located farther to the east. No boundary in this area is clearly delineated, but the southern border of Tibet, as fixed by the McMahon line, runs more or less along the peaks of the Himalayas. The hill country south of the Himalayan range comprises (from west to east) Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhutan, and the NEFA. There has been considerable competition between China and India to dominate the first three of these areas--Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhutan. Though Indian influence was originally very strong...
...ensuing campaign he disregarded all of them. The refusal to debate with his Republican and Independent opponents might have been excusable if the candidate chose some other forum to set forth and defend his program. But Ted's candidacy served no expository function; he did not present the New Frontier goals to the voters of Massachusetts. Lacking imagination, humility and conviction, the youngest Kennedy substituted a smile, a slogan, and a great deal of money. The best that can be said in his defense is: smart politics. But only if one plays at thinking like a Kennedy advisor...
...twenty-one, he has voted only four times in local, state, and national elections. He has made no record of accomplishment in any area of human endeavor to suggest that he is remotely qualified for the U. S. Senate. As Professor Mark DeWolfe Howe, an outspoken "New Frontier" advocate, said some months ago of Teddy: "His academic career is mediocre. His professional career is virtually non-existent. His candidacy is both preposterous and insulting...