Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...return of New York's long-strikebound newspapers brought from columnists a renewed freshet of negative pronouncements upon the New Frontier. "Frustration and stalemate," wrote the Times's James Reston, "now seem to be the order of the day for the Administration.'' Echoed the Herald Tribune's Robert J. Donovan: "The President is beset by stalemate and sluggishness...
...early days of the New Frontier. Chester Bowles was a conspicuous and important man-Under Secretary of State and an insider in major White House foreign policy decisions. But after the Bay of Pigs fiasco, ex-Adman Bowles aroused Kennedy's anger by telling newsmen that he had disagreed with the invasion plans. For that mixture of indiscretion and disloyalty. Kennedy dropped Bowles from his No. 2 post in the State Department and gave him a new job that was long on title-the President's Special Representative and Adviser on African, Asian and Latin American Affairs...
...from big-league baseball and big-league football (the Houston Oilers. 1960 and 1961 champs of the American Football League) to a Museum of Fine Arts headed by James Johnson Sweeney, and a symphony orchestra whose current conductor is Sir John Barbirolli. But the city has not lost its frontier character. "There is freedom of movement here that I have not seen anywhere else," says a recent arrival. Says a Houston oil executive, aglow with civic pride:."This is the last frontier...
Lightly Governed. In the frontier spirit, Houstonians are jealous of their personal liberties, suspicious of authority. It is characteristic of the city that although the buses carry conspicuous NO SMOKING signs, passengers puff away as they please -and so do bus drivers...
From the solicitous reception he got from the New Frontier, the little cold-eyed man who stepped off the airliner in Washington might have been Britain's Prime Minister rather than the Opposition leader. Even in his own Labor Party six months ago. pipe-puffing Harold Wilson was regarded as a slippery opportunist and a constant threat to the party's hard-won unity under the late Hugh Gaitskell. Though his views on most major issues were calculatedly murky, "Little Harold," as his foes call him, drew left-wing support by condemning U.S. handling of Cuba, cheering...