Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Next week Attorney General Robert Kennedy and his family will also leave on a brief vacation-of a somewhat different sort. With their four older children, Bobby and Ethel will travel west to Washington to fish, hike, and then camp out in the Olympic Mountains ("America's last frontier"). They have trained for the trip by frequent games of touch football (and in Ethel's case, by immersion tests in the Kennedy swimming pool); they may also be accompanied by Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, who may not be a touch footballer but knows a thing...
...infusion of youth into the Cabinet. Yet an increasing number of Britons also felt that the 68-year-old Prime Minister should have added his own name to the list of ministers fired for "tiredness." The new Cabinet, cracked the Sunday Telegraph, "is, so to speak, the New Frontier-under Eisenhower." In just nine days, the number of those who professed dissatisfaction with Macmillan himself had risen from 39% to 52%. Only once before in Britain had a Gallup poll ever found a majority dissatisfied with a Prime Minister-in the dark days of 1940 and Neville Chamberlain...
...Frontier Foothold. It was no ordinary Indian pueblo. Out of the dirt came objects that had been used by 16th century Spaniards: bits of chain mail, parts of a helmet, an iron cannon ball, a carved piece of bone, a bronze candlestick base and the cover of a copper vessel probably used in celebrating Mass. Further digging exposed the plan of the old plaza, including the tracks of two dogs that had run across it once, at a time when rain turned the soil...
...more buildings are showing through the soil, and with them appear fragments of glass that may have been parts of medicine bottles that the Spanish colonists carried with them into the wilderness. Nothing spectacular or beautiful is likely to be found, for San Gabriel was the crudest sort of frontier foothold. But enough has been located already to bring to life the days when the armored conquistadors rode up the great river from Mexico...
Enter the graveyard. Read the small stones: Frontier Circus, Oct. 5, 1961-May 24, 1962; Cain's Hundred, Sept. 19, 1961-May 8, 1962; Father of the Bride, Oct. 6, 1961-May 18, 1962; Bus Stop, Oct. 1, 1961-March 25, 1962. But curiously, there are fewer this year. The infant mortality rate among television shows has gone into a slight decline. TV's mediocrity is apparently becoming institutional, and some programs are being kept alive for next season that would have been kicked into oblivion in the more ruthless years...