Word: bordering
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...record includes two ballads from the Francis James Child collection, Mary Hamilton and Henry Martin, and Miss Baez performs the former, a Scottish border ballad, with especial sensitivity. She does a Mexican song, El Preso Numero Nueve (The Ninth Prisoner) with all the verve and fire it was meant to have. Also included are two English broadsides, one of which, John Riley, deals with the classic theme of the lover returning home incognito to test his love's faithfulness...
...Laos' fall affected no one but itself, it might not matter. But on the tense border between Communism and the free world, only the strong can be truly neutral. The U.S. worry about Laos was not over its neutrality but its strength...
...after a ten-year Mexican sojourn, William O'Dwyer, 70, the fun-loving Irishman who became New York City's mayor, was home for good in the "one hell of a city" that he loves. U.S. Ambassador to Mexico during his first two years south of the border, Bill O'Dwyer quietly left Mexico City last May, came to Manhattan and got himself a Park Avenue apartment. It gradually dawned on New Yorkers that "Billo" had returned to stay. Immensely popular among Mexicans, Lawyer O'Dwyer hopes to renew his old U.S. ties, some of which...
...mild political blooper: Americans from south of the border and out in the Caribbean consider themselves just as American as U.S. citizens. But Puerto Ricans are, of course, U.S. citizens
Part of the phenomenon is the author himself. André Schwarz-Bart, 32, is largely self-taught. Born in the long-embattled French-German border city of Metz, the son of a Polish-Jewish peddler, Andre spoke Yiddish as his first language and picked up French in the streets while selling newspapers to help support his family. At 14, after the Nazis invaded France, Andre lost his parents to the gas chambers, subsequently escaped a French internment camp to join the Maquis, and was finally mustered out of the French army at an underage 17. As a postwar tractor-factory...