Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...means unique. Americans have always been a gun-toting people. Guns enabled the first settlers to protect and feed themselves in a hostile land, made later colonists a nation of rifle men capable of winning their freedom in the American Revolution. The West was tamed with guns, and frontier justice became synonymous with them. From the nation's earliest days, the gun has been the delight of collectors and sportsmen. Today, the U.S. has the world's largest civilian cache: some 100 million handguns, rifles and shotguns in private hands. Every year, more than 1,000,000 "dangerous...
...repair yards and move its equipment. It is estimated that the library complex will not be completed until the end of the decade, though certain programs related to it are already operating. Many of President Kennedy's friends and associates are having their impression of the New Frontier tape-recorded as part of a project in oral history, and next year the Institute of Politics will begin bringing together scholars and men experienced in politics...
SIBERIA: A DAY IN IRKUTSK (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).*NBC News focuses on the sprawling Siberian city, 2,600 miles from Moscow, a once frontier trade center which now boasts close to 500,000 inhabitants and a building boom. Concentrating on the people who have helped build the city, NBC interviews a woman surgeon and a Trans-Siberian Railroad engineer...
...greenish-grey Lincoln: he rejects Cadillacs as "too ostentatious." He has a net worth of at least $200,000. And his career clearly means more than affluence to the man who, in 1947, broke baseball's color bar. "After the marches and the demonstrations," says he, "the next frontier for the Negro is the ballot box-and business...
...with troops, ammunition and supplies from a place called Fort Creel to a place called Fort Concho. Many a sturdy western has sprung to life from such straightforward plans as these, but Director Ralph Nelson and his scenarists clutter up the spectacular Utah scenery with something other than frontier history. Clearly indebted to more current events, Diablo's wagon train carries two kinds of people: bad guys and freedom riders...