Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...birth of the nation, energy and the United States have been almost synonymous terms: metaphorically, in the boundless vitality of the American people; literally, in the seemingly inexhaustible supplies of cheap fuel that made possible the transformation of a handful of impoverished colonies into history's richest nation. Frontier mythmakers celebrated the idea that Americans could summon limitless supplies of energy for whatever needed doing, most notably in the tales about Paul Bunyan, who could harness his ox Babe to straighten out the bends in rivers with a single tug. If Faust, the archetypal European, believed that the world...
Last Stronghold. The series must be seen against the state's background. Arizona remains part of the last American frontier that has not quite closed. The gun is still king, and justice is often meted out privately. As law-abiding citizens have flocked to the good life of the fabled Sunbelt, so too have mobsters. Mingling with the native criminals, they have combined the worst of both worlds: Joey Gallo in a Stetson. The rackets are flourishing, most visibly land fraud. Says Arizona's assertive attorney general, Bruce Babbitt: "We've been entranced by our own rhetoric...
...half-blind, half-dead reservation Indian. The best of all, however, is the wild savage Yellow Feather, Adam Ramirez, who lusts after the white flesh of our Little Mary. By giving Besoyan's characters the right amount of schmaltz, the Sunshine Indians help rebut the John Wayne school of frontier history...
...spot. His mission: to bolster U.S. relations with Greece ; and Turkey and to help resolve the longstanding impasse between Greeks and Turks on Cyprus. In 1974, following the Athens-inspired coup against Prelate-President Makarios, Turkish troops invaded the island, and the savage war left Cyprus with an internal frontier of barbed wire, mines and armor. Turkish forces seized the northerly 40% of the island, causing some 200,000 Greek Cypriots to flee to the south. The war also left the eastern flank of NATO in a shambles, with both the Greeks and the Turks blaming their American allies...
...host of CBS-TV's new Who's Who show. Lately she and Gerald Rafshoon, the Atlanta adman who worked for Carter during the campaign, have been a number. Howar expects the Georgians to bring some needed zing to the capital. Says she: "It's a frontier town again, and that's Washington at its best." Still another potential survivor is blonde Page Lee Hufty, 29, a member of an old moneyed family, who paints, rides, plays tennis and is one of the most eligible bachelor girls in town. She finds the Carter people...