Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...example: if it turns a piece of silver black), newspapers warned amateur mycologists to take their harvests to experts for inspection. The appeals for caution had their echo in distant Washington, where Eugene Batisse, French-born chef at Le Bistro, the U.S. capital's popular restaurant and New Frontier hangout, took his family on a tragic mushroom-picking expedition in Rock Creek Park, near their suburban Chevy Chase home. Afterward, Mme. Batisse fried the crop in oil and garlic and served it up at lunch for her husband, ten-year-old son and 13-year-old daughter; by next...
Amid the silliness, Moscow was wailing about Chinese violations of Soviet frontiers, especially in Far Eastern Sinkiang, where the argument goes back about 100 years. Last month Peking accused Moscow of luring tens of thousands of Chinese into Russia for the purpose of sending them back as Soviet saboteurs. Nonsense, replied the Russians; it was just an avalanche of starving refugees. Then the Kremlin launched its own attack, charged that Red Chinese military units and civilians had systematically violated the border 5,000 times during 1962 alone, and had tried to grab Soviet territory. What's more, protested Russia...
Guarding the Strong Room. The crisis was triggered by Indonesia's puffy, demagogic President Sukarno, who has sworn to crush Malaysia at all costs. On the Sarawak frontier, an Indonesian mortar company lobbed shells across the border. Deepening Indonesia's quarrel with Britain, which is pledged to defend Malaysia, government troops in Djakarta barred British diplomats from entering their embassy, gutted fortnight ago by an unchecked mob. The guards even tried to break into the embassy's fireproof code room until they were stopped by tough, stocky Ambassador Andrew Gilchrist, who forced his way into the embassy...
India predicted last year that by now Chinese troops would be deep within the North-East Frontier Agency or already defeated by the IndianArmy. Neither has occurred...
...Frontier: "It is indeed difficult to know on what foot to dance with them. I have nothing to say about President Kennedy, but I think Mrs. Kennedy is glamorous and should be admired...