Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like bones to dogs, in order to set them at an innocent amusement, while she reaps the advantage of further gaining time." Russian propaganda, Marx argued, should be recognized for what it was: "Confidential hints are being communicated to every newspaper that the Russian troops are marching to the frontier . . . These, and a lot of similar reports, are nothing but so many ridiculous attempts on the part of the Russian agents to strike a wholesome terror into the Western world...
...flying enthusiast who has logged over 5,000 hours, Maytag four years ago bought control of Colorado's small Frontier Airlines. Shy and retiring, he hired topnotch airline experts to manage day-to-day operations, was seldom seen by his 1,081 employees. But under his direction, Frontier flourished. Maytag sent his "Sunliners" into 25 new communities, improved equipment, and increased profits 75%. Last month he sold his interest in Frontier to Nevada's Goldfield Consolidated Mines for $3,000,000. Reason: "I was frustrated...
Maytag, who took over as National's president the day the sale was announced, will move to Miami not only his wife and six children, but also his former Frontier vice presidents for operations, sales and finance. The new team hopes to increase National's profits by refinancing, and standardizing its hodgepodge of aircraft. Known in the airline industry as a loner, Maytag seems unlikely to reopen the merger negotiations with Continental Airlines, which National broke off in March. Says he: "I think National can stand on its own two feet." As for George Baker, he will remain...
...want to be on the frontier of theological thought," says James I. McCord, president of the Princeton Theological Seminary. "We want to discuss the major issues confronting Christendom. We want a campus with sufficient openness that the whole church can converse with...
...heap o' writin' to use that sort of material in this day and age on anything more pretentious than a TV show, but 71 -year-old Conrad Richter has been making quiet, honest novels out of it for 25 years. The Town, part of his trilogy on frontier life in the Ohio territory (The Trees, The Fields, The Town), won a Pulitzer Prize...