Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...politics. Prime examples were the Republican votes that defeated Kennedy's medicare program and the Administration attempt to set up a Cabinet-level Department of Urban Affairs (which was to be headed by a Negro). Democrat Kennedy is fond of blaming Republicans for the failures of the New Frontier's programs in the current Congress. But there is another side to that coin. It has been only with Republican votes that the Ad ministration has achieved any wins at all. The most recent instance was Kennedy's proposal to give a tax credit to businesses investing...
Across the Lowu railroad bridge into Communist China one morning last week bustled the everyday traffic from Hong Kong: pongee-clad farmers hauling produce, old women bent double under sacks of flour, visitors with gifts for relatives on the mainland. By mid-morning 200 travelers had crossed the frontier, and one of them was carrying a lethal parcel. Then, as the line shuffled through Red China's wooden customs shed, a powerful blast splintered the building, killed an inspector and a woman traveler, injured 27 others...
...years of rule, the Communists had never before closed the frontier with Hong Kong. Last week they were growing ever more edgy-with good reason. In the past month seven bombs, presumably planted by Nationalist underground agents, have killed five people and wounded 40 others inside Red China. The terrorists have blown up a blockhouse, a dynamite magazine, a bank, a stretch of railway near the borders of Hong Kong and Macao. An attempt was also made to destroy a Macao-Canton ferryboat, but it was foiled when crewmen discovered a tin labeled "Apricot Kernel Cakes with Meat Filling" behind...
...Last Frontier. An Italian lawyer, stopping over in Los Angeles on his way to Mexico, wanders through the city, meets rich Italian immigrants, becomes involved, and eventually likes what he sees. But the story is of less significance than the cumulative effect of the picture's vignettes-some sharp, some silly, all sardonic. The hero, stopping to rest, sits on the bumper of an automobile. Suddenly he rises and leaps away, just as another car smashes into the bumper-demonstrating how Americans park their expensive cars. At" a bar, Italian artists are prostituting their genius doing caricatures of sloppy...
Meeting an Italian career girl with her own thriving business, the hero goes with her to a home she is about to buy, a hilltop viewmaster, 90% glass, with a huge swimming pool and theatrical lighting. "This is the last frontier," says the lawyer. Says the girl: "It's marvelous when there's no smog." It is clear that her life is just one long lungful of metaphysical smog. They go to a wild cocktail party full of space scientists, fags, wags, and a U.S. Senator who says, "Very nice talking with you" to close a conversation that...