Word: frontier
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...grandfather crossed the plains to Montana in a covered wagon, and Chester Robert Huntley's childhood was spent on the raw edge of America's last frontier. The rugged spirit he absorbed from his family and the land prepared him to cultivate the unfilled fields of electronic journalism. As co-anchor man of NBC's Huntley-Brinkley Report for 14 years, he became one of the country's most recognizable celebrities while earning respect for his skill as a newsman. When he left NBC in 1970, he returned to Montana, and it was there that...
...alignment's chances of displacing Meir. While the major spokesman for a conciliatory peace policy, Pinchas Sapir and Yigal Allon, are held in high esteem by the general public, their policies simply are not. Most Israelis realize that security cannot be measured by the distance of the frontier from Tel Aviv, but at the same time they fear that territorial advantages such as the Golan Heights will be traded for unreliable promises. Polls have shown that the majority of Israelis still believe that the Arabs' ultimate aim is to destroy the state. Such a sentiment precludes a major shift...
Died. Lewis Williams Douglas, 79, former Democratic Congressman from Arizona and Ambassador to Great Britain from 1947 to 1950, following a long illness; in Tucson, Ariz. Born in a frontier mining camp, Douglas went East to be educated and then worked briefly in his father's copper mine before entering politics. Douglas served in the House from 1928 until President Roosevelt appointed him Director of the Budget in 1933. After 18 months, Douglas resigned in protest against New Deal fiscal policies but continued to commute freely between a lucrative business career in New York and Arizona and Government service...
...head down,' " says Crew Member Patrick Baron. Roughneck Leo Cariou, a veteran of 14 years in oilfields round the world, explains: "It's part adventure, part backbreaking toil, a big part loneliness. We are the adventurers of the energy business, and the oceans are our last frontier to exploit." That is a notion not often expressed here on the barge; the relentless search for oil affords time for little but the mind-numbing and muscle-aching work that grinds along in hopes of the big payoff...
Hardly a person lives who can deny some such experience, some such seeming visitation from across the psychic frontier. For most of man's history, those intrusions were mainsprings of action, the very life of Greek epic and biblical saga, of medieval tale and Eastern chronicle. Modern science and psychology have learned to explain much of what was once inexplicable, but mysteries remain. The workings of the mind still resist rational analysis; reports of psychic phenomena persist. Are they all accident, illusion? Or are there other planes and dimensions of experience and memory? Could there be a paranormal world exempt...