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...happens, ten of the twelve other young families on their block in Issaquah are also from out of state. For the Cutlips are part of a "northward-ho!" movement of new settlers, mainly from California, who have been streaming by the tens of thousands toward the inviting frontier of the Pacific Northwest. The influx into dynamic areas like Seattle and, to a lesser extent, Portland, Ore., is urbanizing a once rural hinterland and intensifying the Northwest's already bitter debate over local growth...
...Friday, Communist officials in East Berlin agreed to allow neighboring Czechoslovakia to open its Western frontier for East Germans seeking to go West. East Germany on Wednesday lifted its month-old ban on travel to Czecholslovakia, the only country East Germans can visit freely...
...strategically important field of high-energy physics. Funded by 14 European countries, the European Center for Particle Physics in Switzerland has completed construction of the world's most powerful particle accelerator. Last month the $660 million 16-mile supercollider began yielding results that promise to place the new frontier of physics firmly in Western Europe...
They began driving across the border at midnight as Hungary removed the frontier barriers to allow more than 7000 East German refugees to escape to the West...
...this frontier town 120 miles northwest of the Hungarian capital, border guards gave only cursory checks to East Germans...