Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heart transplantation still an exploratory venture on surgery's frontier, or has it become an accepted mode of treatment? On that, the transplanters themselves are divided, Shumway and DeBakey holding that it is still only investigational, with Barnard and Cooley just as emphatically insisting that it is already much more...
...month, the highly mobile First Air Cavalry Division with its complement of more than 400 helicopters was shifted from northernmost I Corps into the Cambodian border fringe north and northwest of the capital, to strengthen allied defensive screens there. The U.S. command estimates that the jungles along the sievelike frontier harbor as many as four Communist divisions, some sheltered in newly built base areas. Throughout III Corps, the Communist order of battle has risen from 60 main and local-force battalions last summer to about 70 this month...
Sometimes Reisner lectures on graffiti in history, from Pompeii to frontier America, or examines ways in which graffiti illuminate social or political frustrations. But more often the class will repair to a nearby bistro for a firsthand look at the living art. Reisner, who systematically began scrutinizing lavatory walls four years ago and has published two paperback collections of graffiti, believes that the golden age of the graffito is here. In addition to the wit on washroom walls, there is the contemporary lapel-button fad, which he describes as "walking graffiti." The fact is, says Reisner, that "graffiti...
Downtown Dallas on Sunday morning has the look of frontier tranquillity. The streets are clean and nearly free of traffic-except on the midtown corners that surround the First Baptist Church. Here, beginning shortly before 8 a.m., cars crowd in to disgorge loads of early worshipers. A few of the young women wear miniskirts, bouffant hairdos and unlikely eyelashes. Their female elders, considerably less chic, carry the aura of talcum and printed voile that spells the Sabbath all over the South...
...sure ear for its speech and a shrewd eye for its manners, Richter brought early America to life. The cowboys, Indians and farmers of his novels are more than fictional characters; they are, as one critic noted, explorers who give the "truest picture of the everyday realities of frontier life...