Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). A. B. Guthrie's frontier saga, These Thousand Hills (1959), stars Don Murray, Lee Remick, Richard Egan and Stuart Whitman...
...automobiles; only recently did the last of them abandon the electricity-pinching practice of using white sails to reflect sunlight into their musty offices. Until a new auto strada is completed in 1970, the main stretch of road along the tourist-heavy coastal route between Genoa and the French frontier will remain the two lane Via Aurelia, built by the ancient Romans. Whenever somebody suggests expanding the roads to Italy's interior, Genoese businessmen invariably ask: "Why? Just to let people from Milan come over here to have a good time...
Biochemistry deserves more attention than it has been receiving at Harvard. It is the scientific frontier of the sixties--involving research in genetic codes, cancer, and the workings of the brain. If Harvard is to remain a leader in experimental science, it must build up its program of instruction in biochemistry and add more biochemists to the Faculty...
...This has always been the country of easy answers-easy in the sense of being simple and straightforward rather than complicated. We're the country of the endless frontier, of the big sky, of manifest destiny, of unlimited resources, of 'Go west, young man,' of opportunity for all, of rags to riches, mass production, nothing to fear but fear itself, technical know-how, a chicken in every pot, gung-ho and can do. We have won all the marbles-and it just isn't enough. Further, the U.S. of A. knows or feels that...
...supervise communications between the last frontier and the cloth, Hefner chose onetime Zoologist Anson Mount, the magazine's football editor, appointed him six months ago to head a new religion department. People who saw this move as a rather amusing put-on overestimate Hefner's sense of humor. It was all very serious, and frivolous staffers were discouraged from making jokes involving "sermon" and "Mount." Recalls the new religion editor: "I found myself over my head with things like personhood, demythologizing, Bonhoeffer. So I went to Hefner and said, 'Man, I've got to go off to school and learn...