Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first years of the Soviet Union, to escape from Russia was difficult and dangerous. Today it has become almost impossible, an attempt tantamount to suicide. Barbed and electrically charged wire, searchlight-equipped watch towers. 24-hour frontier patrols aided by bloodhounds and police dogs guard every mile of border. Therefore, excitement was great in Latvia last week when Victor Konarski, onetime Soviet port chief at Leningrad, made good his escape to Riga...
Meanwhile the Government ordered that everyone in Rumania who had come there as an immigrant must produce his papers to be checked up. Those whose papers are not in order will be promptly arraigned in court-and every Rumanian knows that for years the frontier authorities have made a business of letting immigrants, mostly Jews, slip in on payment of small bribes...
What a lot of fun TIME'S critics would miss if artists did not entertain them with their serious work. With what penetrating wit these specialists observe that Martha Graham's Frontier (TIME, Jan. 10) is, after all, but a fence-act; that modern dance numbers when repeated become hash; that drums that accompany the modern dance are thumped and oboes tootle...
...half Japanese, half Soviet. Suddenly the Japanese sleigh driver found himself being nudged in the ribs by Comrade Sugimoto with a pistol. The driver halted, watched, terrified and helpless, while the actress and her Red put on skis, started down a steep slope in the direction of the Soviet frontier and disappeared in gathering darkness. Japanese frontier patrols, summoned by the driver, found no trace of the ski-elopers, said they had apparently made for a Soviet frontier post about a mile from the spot where they started their slide...
...dispatches from Sakhalin declared that the lover in the case was indeed Yoshida but still insisted that he and Miss Okada had eloped to the Reds. Final confirmation came when Soviet officials at Alexandrovsk announced they had clapped Actress Okada and Producer Yoshida into a small jail near the frontier. In Tokyo detectives grilled stage colleagues of the pair, learned they had participated at the Soviet Embassy in amateur theatricals...