Word: frontiere
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gnarled peasants at work or the shiny, hopeful faces of village children baking festive rolls in the shape of swastikas, were building on the most popular traditions of 19th century German genre painting-that volkisch sentiment that was Germany's equivalent to America's image of frontier virtue. One sequence says it all: a choir singing carols beneath a light-baubled Christmas tree in a village square. The camera tilts up, slowly and lovingly, to reveal a huge illuminated swastika on top of the tree, dispensing its generous light over the festival. Even today, one cannot laugh...
...Official Secrets Act. Chief Justice Sir Hugh Beadle, in announcing the unanimous ruling, twitted the Smith government's case against Niesewand: "Factual evidence as opposed to opinion was never given." The court found that Niesewand's reports on guerrilla activity against Rhodesian forces near the Mozambique frontier last year had not damaged the state, but had merely embarrassed the government...
...Hills, is convinced that overseas investment in Viet Nam is about to take off. "By 1975, there should be a rush to invest," he says, "in everything from rice, fruit and fish to rubber, timber, molybdenum and oil. There are tremendous long-range business opportunities. It's like frontier California; there's a great potential for growth...
...lanky, talkative New Englander who resigned as president of a successful offshore-oil-drilling business because he thought that organized agriculture is the new frontier of business. "The day when agriculture is called upon to save the dollar is already here," he says. "Just as Japan may be able to make barbed wire, nails and transistors more cheaply than we can, the U.S. can produce broilers and beef more cheaply and ship them all over the world." Thus far, Stratford's three basic operational areas are cattle, chickens and potted plants, and Gow organizes each division down...
...white sector in Namibia currently depends on Africans for cheap labor. Fifty-five to sixty per cent of the blacks are forced to live in the arid Bantustans of the northern frontier--which are too barren to support the population--while a tax on the Africans drives the men to work in the white "police zone." Black Africans are forbidden by law to fill skilled jobs...