Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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White, 44, sometime football hero and Rhodes scholar (see box). To help make up for his lack of judicial experience. White will bring to the court a high and well-honed intelligence. With a New Frontier Democrat replacing a conservative Republican, it was widely felt that the uneasy balance in the court would tilt decisively toward the liberal bloc-but that was an overly simple interpretation. White is a New Frontier pragmatist. As a former Deputy Attorney General, he will probably tend to side with the Frankfurter bloc in internal security cases, just as Whittaker did. And where White does...
...nation for a generation or more to come." Commerce Secretary Luther H. Hodges called it "one of the most important pieces of legislation to have come before Congress in the last decade." They were talking about H.R. 9900, the Trade Expansion Act of 1962-perhaps the first New Frontier bill that really proposes to thrust to a new frontier...
...People come up to me in dining rooms. Of course, I think it's a little bit presumptuous to come across a dining room floor with a menu card and ask me to autograph it, but the people do it kindly." The ancient poet laureate of the New Frontier feels at home with the Kennedy Administration. "But I'm not a liberal...
...there were some encouraging signs. Dobrynin is young, intelligent, and far more relaxed with Americans than Menshikov, whose major trademark was a stiff, frozen grin. For a Soviet diplomatic couple, the Dobrynins have unusual social poise, even dress like Americans. On the art-and athletics-conscious New Frontier, they are likely to contribute more than Menshikov to Washington's social whirl. Both are accomplished skiers (he also plays tennis), and Mrs. Dobrynin plays the piano well, has a broad knowledge of U.S. art and literature. But Washington would be surprised indeed if Dobrynin displayed the one quality that Soviet...
...enough electricity at full power to operate 40 medium-sized TV stations. Its practical use is nil. It will never freshen sea water, cure cancer, or solve any other specific problem of applied science. But in the hands of Harvard and M.I.T. scientists, it will probe far beyond the frontier of present physical knowledge. No one knows what waits to be found in this dark region, but physicists are sure it is packed with wonderful secrets. Full knowledge of why energy sometimes "condenses" to form matter, for example, would probably lift human civilization as much as the discovery of electricity...