Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...communities each formed their own militia, manning checkpoints on roads leading from one sector into the other. Inside Nicosia, tourists wandering from the south side to the north to visit the Turkish quarter felt that they were crossing a frontier into another country...
...frontier seems tamed. The age of exploitation has begun...
...technological advances that are opening up the sea frontier have caused a legal and political nightmare. But they are also spurring revisions of the gloomier forecasts of the Club of Rome and the other doomsayers about the ability of man to continue to find fuel to burn, food to eat and materials to build with -in peace...
...Union address to a still-stunned nation mourning the loss of its young president. With his declaration of a "war on poverty," Johnson tried to revive the shaken hopes of a people who, through the energetic appeals of John F. Kennedy '40, had felt themselves on the frontier of a new society...
Peter Edelman, 36. Like many New Frontier veterans, this onetime legislative assistant to Robert Kennedy has taken a sabbatical from politics-he is now vice president for university policy and planning at the University of Massachusetts. "Some of us who have been enamored of Washington tended to forget how much you can accomplish at the local level," says the Minneapolis-born, Harvard-educated Edelman, who has launched university courses for prison inmates and other nontraditional students. Like his wife Marian, he is a supporter of children's rights. A onetime law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, Edelman...