Word: frontier
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...ideal freedom is a struggle toward the light, the U.S. is somewhat closer to it now--in economic freedoms, social freedoms and political freedoms --than it has ever been before. The obituary for the American frontier was pronounced by Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893. But in the American mind, the future itself is the wilderness to be settled. The U.S. still works frontiers, finding new channels, inventing new lives. By its explorations in the realms of individual and social freedoms, America is making what historians may eventually consider its greatest contribution to the modern...
Whether recalling the glories of the past or peering with lofty vision into the future, the men and women who have led America to the high frontier of space still marvel at what they have wrought and yearn restlessly to get on with what they are certain will one day come to be. In a mere quarter-century, the human race has broken its immemorial bond to the life-sustaining surroundings of the home planet. U.S. space pioneers have been able to orbit the globe, walk on the moon, ring the earth with communications satellites and send a machine nearly...
...half of the city, while the Soviet Union takes responsibility for East Berlin. In 1949, with Moscow's backing, East Germany proclaimed East Berlin as its capital. When the Berlin Wall went up in 1961, the East Germans had a physical boundary that they insisted was part of their frontier. They regard only West Berlin as subject to four-power authority. That view, however, ignores a 1971 agreement giving each of the occupying powers the right to send its diplomats anywhere within the city. The three Western powers sent special patrols into East Berlin last week to test the East...
...Viet Nam-backed Kampuchean government is continuing to work at sealing off the border with Thailand by building walls and ditches reinforced with barbed wire and mines. But even if the huge project is completed, it will be almost impossible for the Kampucheans to close the entire 300-mile frontier...
Jonathan Z. Larsen '61, who is now a freelancewriter, says he approached the New Frontier withrenewed patriotism. "When Kennedy sounded thebugle, I was more than ready to follow." But theturmoil of the late '60s taught Larsen, who coveredthe tumultous 1968 Democratic convention inChicago for Time magazine, that the solution forchange "was to openly challenge the system." Asbureau chief for Time magazine in Saigon in theearly 1970s, Larsen grew disillusioned with "theanarchy" he saw in almost half of the AmericanGI's on drugs. "Kennedy would have beenpessimistic himself...