Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BURMA: hell-bent on "socialism" and chaos at home, "neutralism" abroad, a situation made more ominous by an 850-mile common frontier with China...
Others comment sardonically on the senseless event, as in Frontier, by Josephine Miles...
...Pacific except Blackfoot Indians, grizzly bears and federal bureaucrats. Though President James Monroe in 1825 had forever prohibited any U.S. settlement beyond the upper Mississippi and the present states of Missouri and Arkansas, the frontiersmen paid no attention. By the time Monroe's proclamation reached the frontier, it had been pushed as far west as Spanish Texas and Santa Fe. The grizzlies were similarly surmountable. Pathfinder Jedediah Smith jerked his mangled head from the jaws of one and went on to discover the South Pass gateway through the Rockies and the last missing link in the Oregon Trail...
...secret was fighting firewater with firewater. The frontiersmen became indistinguishable from the Indians in their drinking habits, their beaded buckskins, and war paint. If anything, says Dale Van Every in the fourth and final volume of his Frontier People of America, the paleface invaders were "morally more savage than their Indian victims." On one occasion, a trapper found rivals following him to learn the most lucrative beaver streams. His solution was to lead them through the country of the Blackfeet, who ambushed and dismembered the rivals' leader...
...months that followed, he marshaled the energies and patriotism of disparate forces in the Government and gunned ahead with the policies of the New Frontier. He was, and to a great extent still is, an uncertain hand at mastering the intricacies of the U.S. role in foreign affairs. But he brought much of Jack Kennedy's domestic program to fruition with great skill. The tax cut, the civil rights bill and the federal pay raise-all were products of the resoluteness with which Johnson as sumed his unaccustomed leadership. That leadership paid him a dividend: the respect and confidence...