Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wheeling Steel Corp., the industry's tenth biggest producer, which was the first to announce price hikes in several categories of steel (TIME, April 19). One year earlier, the steel industry's ill-timed effort to raise prices had drawn a furious fusillade from the New Frontier. But this time there was only a mild murmur of protest from Washington and Palm Beach...
Even so, steelmen moved with notable caution. After three days of silence on both sides, Lukens Steel Co., the 20th-ranking producer, upped its price on a few types of steel. All remained quiet on the New Frontier. Then third-ranking Republic got up its nerve and announced increases similar to Wheeling's, but not identical. Again, all quiet. The following day, after two more companies joined the wary parade, giant U.S. Steel finally raised prices. Its increases were noticeably gentler than Wheeling's: $4 on hot-rolled sheet and strip (50? less than the other companies...
Ghighi and Charlene moved through all ranks of society, from those who want their names kept out of the papers, like Charlene's father, to those who want to get them in, like the top levels of the New Frontier. Charlene's father had long been a close friend of Joseph P. Kennedy. The two now have mansions on Palm Beach's North County Road, and warm neighborliness prevails. President Kennedy sometimes stayed at the Wrightsmans' home; when he hasn't, he and Jackie have gone to parties there. Jayne Wrightsman, who has made...
...death, the flinty, quick-witted Yorkshireman has had to move closer to the political center to hold the party together and take hard and fast stands on which Britain's electorate can weigh the merits of a Labor government. Wilson was plainly anxious to win the New Frontier's confidence. After an in tensive, four-day round of conferences with President Kennedy and key administrative hands, the Labor leader's views on most outstanding world issues seemed now at least as close to U.S. policy as Harold Macmillan...
...result of all this, plus a career as movie star (Shoot the Piano Player) and music publisher. he has acquired two chateaux, a flight of sports cars and $2,000,000. And, as a philosopher, by his own gay admission he has firmly pushed back the moral frontier of France...