Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shadegg did his level best to grab Goldwater's coattails. He constantly invoked Goldwater's name, bragged of their close association, preached Goldwater conservatism. Like Goldwater, he criticized the United Nations, blasted the New Frontier, complained about the Administration's failure to act against Cuba. But Mecham (pronounced Meek-am) managed to look even more conservative. He invited the support of the John Birch Society, which Shadegg had criticized by saying, "The oversimplified, dogmatic answers of the extremists of the far right offer little hope for progress...
Conceding the necessity of spending for sheer survival, corporate executives nonetheless complain that the brightest young scientists are flocking into Government-guided work instead of into what Zenith Radio President J. S. Wright calls "the mundane world of household goods." Not only are the glamorous frontier technologies more challenging to inventors, but they are also more rewarding because of generous Government cost-plus contracts...
...midtrial, the government rounded up five of the conspirators who had taken part in the second ambush. At week's end, former Premier Georges Bidault, now reportedly leading the anti-Gaullist underground, was also arrested in Italy and, as is common in such cases, taken to "the frontier of his choice...
...reporter, Baker had been solemn and respect f til about the New Frontier; as a columnist, he gives it the horselaugh. He is at his best finding new ways to riddle old targets. Scores of other satirists before him have had a go at the presidential press conference, but Baker's very first column topped them all. Sample...
Some of the most useful fringe benefits are invisible to the tax collector's eye. Informed churchgoers provide their ministers with sure-thing stock market tips; talented accountants in the congregation can help a pastor cut his tax liabilities; in rural districts the laity still follows the old frontier custom of helping out the preacher by stocking his larder with food from time to time. The once generous discounts offered clergymen by railroads and stores have been restricted, reduced or cut out. But on balance, says a lay official of the National Lutheran Council, "ministers never...