Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Frontier, the faces of foreign-policy officials were grimmer, paler and wearier than at any time since the Cuba missile crisis last October. White House and State Department spokesmen talked somberly of a sudden shift from thaw to freeze in the cold...
Kennedy's remarks, coupled with his other activities in the South, underscored not only the Administration's drive to ease the lot of the Southern Negro, but the recognition that the Negro vote is vital to a major New Frontier drive to remake the South's Democratic Party...
That is not quite right. Administration leaders, among them Bobby Kennedy, realize fully that a public purge might boomerang, bringing cries of Government interference and ensuring the re-election of Congressmen opposed to the New Frontier. Says Bobby of the purge possibility: "I was not born yesterday." But what the Administration does intend to do is squeeze its Southern critics-and squeeze them hard...
After the Republican collapse Grimau fled, worked as a Communist agent in Czechoslovakia, Russia, Mexico and Cuba. A member of the central committee of the outlawed Spanish Communist Party, he was living in France when he slipped across the frontier in 1959 to reorganize the Spanish Communist underground. After several trips in and out of Spain since 1959, an informer gave him away to police in Madrid last November. Franco's cops clapped him in jail and began a lengthy interrogation. During one session, Grimau leaped, fell, or was pushed from a first-floor window, fracturing his skull...
Close to Melville. Nolan describes the framework of his art as "deep space" or "man in an extreme environment." He could just as well be defining the history of Australia itself. Like the U.S. Wild West, Australia's vast mid-continental frontier has been a breeder of legends. And always the theme is man against terrifying odds. It may be drought, heat or the devastating loneliness of an outback town; the protagonist may be a gold digger, convict, explorer or the legendary Aussie bandit, Ned Kelly, defying a continent...