Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...memoirs busting out all over about life under John Kennedy, last week's crop was mostly devoted to a re-examination of the Bay of Pigs fiasco (see TIME ESSAY). But in LIFE magazine this week, Historian Arthur Schlesinger moves on to discuss another facet of the New Frontier-the President's disenchantment with the State Department...
Sense of Purpose. A frontier such as Viet Nam is always "dangerous," said Fairlie. "It is where interests meet, and may collide. It is where the claims of others seem to be strongest, and one's own claims most open to question. But frontier wars are the inescapable moments of truth for an empire. That America is now 'dissipating' her resources in small wars around the world seems to me, therefore, a meaningless criticism. The 'cloud of critics' at the center, as Gibbon contemptuously dismissed them, may react nervously to every exercise of their country...
...most critical U.S. embassy post anywhere in the world today is Saigon-diplomatic frontier not only for the war in Viet Nam but for the longer-range struggle between the U.S. and Communist China. Last week the Saigon job went to a man who knows by first-hand experience just how difficult and demanding it is: named to succeed Ambassador Maxwell Taylor, retiring at 63, was Taylor's own predecessor, Henry Cabot Lodge...
...offer from the Gillette Safety Razor Co.'s German branch, Vesper agreed to enter the Ratzeburg Regatta and race once again against the powerful West German crew. Last week, on a windless lake close to the little (pop. 12,123) town of Ratzeburg near the Danish frontier, Karl Adam's husky boys got off with a fast-chopping 50 strokes a minute, built up a one-half-length lead before slowing the pace to 41 strokes. At times, the Vespers pumped away at more than 40 strokes, but never succeeded in closing the distance. Ratzeburg glided past...
...effect, the fringe benefits that modern ministers get no longer come from their positions as church leaders but from their rough equity with the rest of society. On the way out with the discount is a nostalgic custom that dates back to the days of the U.S. frontier-but going with it is a practice that bespoke a general public guilt over paying preachers too little to live...