Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Company of Heroes, by Dale Van Every. A workmanlike history of the long and little-known struggle during the American Revolution between tenacious settlers and desperate Indians on the western frontier...
...first, unless there's no other way to get the job done. I am afraid of concentration of power in Washington or anywhere else, because this is the way people lose their freedom." He adds: "The Bible says, 'Seek, and ye shall find.' The New Frontier says, 'Sit down, and we'll give it to you.' " Judd's opponent is Minneapolis' Donald Fraser, 38, a personable lawyer who has served two terms as a state senator. A Navy veteran, Fraser goes right down the line with President Kennedy and the New Frontier...
...better or worse. Some 375 billion stamps will leave their glue on American tongues in 1962. They will be issued under about 300 different names, but 90% of them will come from one of the eight big stamp companies: S & H Green Stamps, Top Value, Plaid Stamps, Gold Bond, Frontier, Blue Chip, King Korn, Triple S. The goods for which they were redeemed in 1961 amounted to approximately $800 million worth (at list prices), and included 14% of the heating pads, 8% of the toasters and 4% of the coffeemakers sold in the U.S. Stamps may be issued along with...
...Frontier. As chairman and president of Mattel, Elliot Handler, 46, likes to think up new toys. Chic, aggressive Executive Vice President Ruth Handler, 45, oversees manufacture and administration. (By family agreement, they never talk business at home.) Husband and wife aspire to make Mattel the world's biggest toymaker; this year, if their sales hit $80 million as expected, they will achieve their goal and surpass longtime industry leader Louis Marx (TIME cover...
...locked doors on an annual research budget of $1,500,000. Currently, the company has 17 new toy "principles" ready to employ in a variety of toys. Exults Jack Ryan, a onetime missile engineer who heads Mattel's R. & D. department: "We're right out on the frontier of technology...