Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...partners has second thoughts, represents a sound and simultaneous tripartite decision in a NATO split by Charles de Gaulle. Most important, it may prompt Moscow to transfer some of its 26 divisions in Eastern Europe to a more sensitive perimeter, Russia's 4,100-mile frontier with China...
...Greenwater (Calif.) Chuck-Walla warned readers, and the plucky little newspaper more than lived up to its lusty pledge-at least as long as it lived. The Chuck-Walla was one of in numerable fly-by-night newspapers that flourished on the Western frontier. Their exuberant, quarrelsome editors are now a forgotten breed. But, as Author John Myers Myers (The Alamo, San Francisco's Reign of Terror) makes clear, they were as much a fixture of the 19th century Western scene as outlaws and lawmen. Some Westerners were as passionate about putting out a paper as others were about...
Saloons were the most reliable advertisers because they were never short of funds on the hard-drinking frontier. Editors had to coddle other advertisers by playing up their names and wares in the news columns, a practice that hardly died with the old West. Politicians advertised occasionally. "An election was harvesttime," said Harry Ellington Brook, who put out the Quijotoa, Ariz., Prospector. "There was a graduated rate, running from $10 for a Coroner to $250 for a Sheriff. The price charged included a commensurate amount of favorable mention...
Improvising Poetry. To the frontier editor, a pistol was as crucial as a composing stick. Irate readers were all too likely to reply with bullets instead of letters. Some editors were careful not to sleep twice in the same spot because so many of their colleagues had been shot at in their beds. Editors regularly attacked each other in print-and in person. James King, publisher of the San Francisco Evening Bulletin, and James P. Casey, publisher of the San Francisco Times, settled their differences in a classic encounter. Casey gunned down King, and Casey, in turn, was lynched...
...urban sophistication, the most cogent economic fact of Canada today is the push into pioneer land, where technology is taking on nature to create a new frontier unlike anything ever seen before (TIME cover, Sept. 30, 1966). With vast areas as yet unexplored, only a fraction of the returns are in. The potash finds in Saskatchewan and oil reserves in Alberta are estimated to be equal to all those known in the rest of the world...