Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most dangerous part of the 150-mile run up the Mekong from the China Sea came between An Long, 20 miles south of the Cambodian frontier, and Neak Luong, site of a Cambodian naval base 32 miles southeast of Phnom-Penh. With radios at An Long blaring reports of heavy enemy crossfire ahead. South Vietnamese river pilots refused to guide the ships the last few miles to the frontier while Cambodian pilots declined to cross the frontier into foreign waters. Some captains, deciding to proceed anyway, argued loudly for arms. "Give us some machine guns," demanded one. A South Vietnamese...
Spanish missionaries first introduced Christianity to North America, but American clergymen did not take long to adopt the missionary technique. The proselytizing urge, however, also produced an expansionist tendency. After the cavalry "settled" the frontier, Christian ministers followed, converting the red man to the American way of life...
...events at the University of Massachusetts have proven him a valuable prophet. The decision at UMass last week to hire Bowles, Herbert M. Gintis and two other radical economists, leaves Harvard with only one lonely radical economist, who is skeptical of what one pioneer can do on a deserted frontier...
...later suicide)--the political interests of important businessmen, the links between quack doctors and paid-off police, and the duplicities of crooked accomplices to his friend's "crimes." Altman doesn't want to concentrate on the intelligence and shrewd stratagems which Marlowe uses to overcome denizens of the closed frontier; he doesn't give us in his film any alternative to lifestyles within California society. He wants us to take the evil of the present world as a given, and astound us with American society's mercurial ability to gloss over mercenary treachery and murder. It is a valid view...
Sprawled along the left bank of the Rhine River on the French-German frontier, the ancient city of Strasbourg (pop. 250,000), typifies the jarring blend of old and new that is Europe today. Thick-walled 17th century fortresses, built by the great French engineer Vauban, and a toweringly spired Gothic cathedral look down on postwar synthetic-rubber factories and petrochemical plants. Although 300 miles from the North Sea, Strasbourg is France's largest port for exports; Common Market-bred prosperity has all but erased old fears that the city might once again become the object of French-German...