Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...directionless road of vaudevillian fame was far more apt as a symbol of Arkansas' dead-end economic and political condition than as a sampling of Ozark humor. For all its majestic forests and fertile bottom lands, its bountiful natural resources and the Mississippi on its eastern frontier, the state remained for long decades a kind of limboland...
Bullhorns & Hot Coffee. The target was the tiny (pop. 4,000) village of Samu, three miles north of the Israeli border, a frequent staging area for terrorists. At dawn one morning last week, 4,000 Israeli troops, riding in Jeeps, personnel carriers and five Patton tanks, rumbled across the frontier, overwhelmed an eight-man police post and swept into Samu, routing sleepy-eyed residents out of their homes with booming bullhorns. While Israeli troops calmly sipped hot coffee on Samu's main street, demolition teams dynamited 46 empty houses, and three tanks reduced the local mosque to rubble...
...PROFESSIONALS. A real old-fashioned shoot-'em-up, with enough good guys and bad guys to populate the entire Western frontier. On the side of justice are Gunslingers Lee Marvin, Burt Lancaster, Woody Strode and Robert Ryan, hired to lasso a missing wife (Claudia Cardinale) kidnaped by Mexican Villain Jack Palance. The setting is a remote bandit stronghold in the early 1900s, the mood mean and violent...
Proud of its tradition as the middle way between Rome and Reformation, the Anglican Communion has traditionally tolerated a degree of latitude in doctrinal interpretation that baffles outsiders. Yet there are plenty of Episcopalians who feel that Pike has long since crossed the frontier of permissible heterodoxy...
These caves will never be crowded. They demand skill in mountaineer- "The Last Frontier: The Strange World," as one Grotto flyer puts it. When every last mountain has been ing, plus thorough experience with the special problems of mud, darkness, and water. Any accident in a cave is doubly serious, so the advanced caver has to be a first aid expert. Often cavers participate in rescue programs such as the Boston Grotto's Cave Rescue Communications Network...