Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rostow, now one of the New Frontier's fulltime advisers, remarked to Presidential Aspirant John Kennedy: "I know what the first words of your acceptance speech should be: 'This country is ready to get moving again and I'm ready to lead it.' " Kennedy liked the theme, if not the precise wording. After he won the Democratic nomination, he tried it out in several versions. It achieved its most memorable form in a speech in Seattle on Sept. 6: "I pledge you an Administration that will get this country moving again." The phrase became Kennedy...
...Benjamin Cardozo. But Kennedy had made up his mind in advance, announced Frankfurter's replacement right away: Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg (TIME cover, Sept. 22. 1961). Longtime general counsel of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., Goldberg, 54, qualified as an eminent and successful lawyer, as a liberal of the activist New Frontier type, and as a Jew (Frankfurter was the court's only Jewish member, and political doctrine demanded that his successor be a Jew). Besides, as one knowledgeable New Frontiersman candidly put it, "Goldberg wanted the job badly.'' It is always risky to predict the ideological direction a man may take...
...that their guest is not served the same dish twice; heroically oversized beds have been deployed at each stopover to accommodate De Gaulle's 6 ft. 4 in. frame. In Hamburg alone, some 3,000 extra policemen will protect the French President. Along West Germany's borders, frontier guards have been alerted to exclude known members of France's fiercely anti-Gaullist S.A.O.* French and German officialsemphasize that the trip will be essentially ceremonial rather than political. Sniffed a German politician: "A museumlike event for two old gentlemen." It is certainly a historic one. But De Gaulle...
Fortnight ago, Iraqi air force planes bombed and strafed a Turkish village along the border between the two countries. Next day Turkish jets, catching two more Iraqi raiders inside Turkey, attacked and crippled one of Kassem's planes, which limped back across the frontier and crashed in Iraq. Angry diplomatic notes were exchanged between Ankara and Baghdad; in a fiery broadcast, Baghdad charged that Turkey not only was helping the Kurds but also had violated Iraqi air space with its jets...
...shaky government. But in a pointed warning to the Iraqis, the Turks last week ordered their ambassador in Baghdad back to Turkey "to complete his vacation period" and announced that the annual military maneuvers of the Turkish army would take place next month. Where? Along the Iraqi frontier, where a little sabre rattling might help the diplomats...