Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Kennedy kept his plan for avoiding a nationwide railroad strike a secret right down to the moment he was ready to unwrap it. Only a few members of his own New Frontier team knew what he was going to propose. He wanted to spring his plan on Congress before critics could marshal any arguments. Then, to the White House one day, he summoned a passel of congressional leaders. Seated at the Cabinet Room's spacious, coffin-shaped table, he somberly reported that management and union negotiators were deadlocked, and that federal intervention was the only way out. Then...
...vice president of Prudential Insurance Co. of America before he joined the New Frontier, Day brought big business savvy to big government. He launched Accelerated Business Collection-Delivery (ABCD), a service in which letters mailed in any of 273 cities by 11 a.m. are delivered to any point in the downtown section of the city by 3 p.m. the same day. Day's recently inaugurated Zone Improvement Plan (ZIP), using five-digit codes affixed by the sender, is designed to speed mail service by pinpointing exactly how the letter should be routed-through one of ten U.S. regions...
Last week the White House an nounced Day's resignation. He had experienced his share of frustrations in sharp-elbowed Washington, but the only reason he was leaving, he said, was that "an unusual opportunity" had knocked. He will leave the New Frontier next week to set up a Washington office for Sidley, Austin, Burgess & Smith, the Chicago law firm in which he began a legal career 25 years...
Competition for Survival. The Moscow agreement and the prospects it raises are not merely events in the cold war; they are also events in the long, distinguished career of Averell Harriman, at 71 an old man on the New Frontier. He is a figure of another generation, yet very much on top of present events; hard of hearing, yet noticeably keen in his political perception; a rambling speaker (his dictation, says his secretary, is "impressionistic"), yet hard and precise of thought. In the period of change that is bound to follow the test ban treaty, Harriman's thinking...
...Bhabani Sen Gupta, deputy director of New Service Division of All India Radio, pointed out the recent cooperation on the political scene: the definition of the physical frontier and the freezing, if not solving, of the Kashmir dispute. While there was still a great deal to be done, the challenge of co-existence has been accepted in both countries, he said...