Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Talking with Guns. Along Israel's 600 miles of frontier with its hostile neighbors of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon, there are still great stretches of no man's land. From foxholes and trenches now well ensconced in olive groves, Jew and Arab stare bitterly at one another, firing on anything that moves. Would-be infiltrators cause few diplomatic headaches, a U.N. media tor wryly explains, because "we simply repatriate the corpses." Bisecting the city of Jerusalem is a grim buffer zone of tangled barbed wire and antitank dragon's feet, flanked by concrete pill boxes...
...Castro tell it on TV next night, he had just seen the promised land. "A formidable people! Enthusiasm, organization, discipline, order!" Nothing could compare with Russia's resources and standard of living. To see capitalist lands, he said, "is crushing-crushing because it is to cross from the frontier of abundance to the frontier of hunger." For Cuba's own frontier of hunger he promised vast improvements-particularly in the sugar crop that has tumbled from 6,000,000 tons to 3,000,000 tons in two years. Comrade Khrushchev, said Castro, worked on this problem "a whole...
...coal mines, has been plagued by chronic unemployment. Last year, when violent riots broke out between the two factions, the Flemish majority in Parliament passed a law dividing Belgium into two separate unilingual sections along a line extending from the German border south of Aachen to the French frontier; to the north, Flemish would be the official language in schools, courts and administrative offices; to the south, only French would be recognized...
...Serious. Solal, 35, was once a regular in Paris jazz clubs, but he gave them up in favor of composing and playing concert tours. He has written film scores (Breathless) and highly complex jazz suites that lead his music lo the border of atonality-a frontier he intends to cross soon in compositions for jazz trio. His intricate style and intellectual leanings have caused occasional snipers to complain that he "plays white" and doesn't swingue,* but Paris suffers from a galloping case of Crow Jim, and to all but the heaviest listeners, Solal swings just fine...
...hottest competition now is in the frontier science of cryogenics-Greek for "creation of icy cold." Working with chilled liquid gases, the three companies have found that materials behave in weird and wondrous ways in the icy world of low, low temperatures. By slowing the movement of electrons and thus reducing resistance to electricity to almost nothing, the extreme cold of liquid nitrogen, for example, gives an electric magnet four times or more the usual pull and makes a light bulb shine 20 times brighter. Linde has also found that whole blood and body tissues can be preserved indefinitely when...