Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before a crowd of 40,000 in the port city of Pola this week, Marshall Tito delivered his most important general policy statement of the year. He said that the Yugoslav-Greek frontier will be "gradually closed...
Tito also revealed that Yugoslavia has been seeking loans totaling $250 million from the World Bank and other Western sources. The U.S. and Britain have demanded the closing of the Greek frontier as a prior condition to granting such loans. At Pola, Tito explained: "We are not selling our conscience and our souls." Nevertheless, it looked as if somebody was selling something-on the installment plan...
...intelligent use of sound. Small, natural noises-the clop of hooves and the rattle of stones under the wagon wheels-take on weight and value. Spots of unbroken silence have the quality of noonday sunlight on an empty plain. Other refreshing and honest touches: the homely treatment of four frontier chippies (including Gloria Grahame); the persuasively intimate feel of the western countryside; the sensitive cinematic handling of sound and movement in a slow, hide-and-seek gunfight on a mountain slope...
...wasn't only sentiment that kept the price up: there was also Constable Everett Earp (second cousin to Gunman Wyatt Earp, famed frontier marshal), who owns the place and keeps his real-estate office in the back. Earp removed the outdoor privy a couple of years ago, but the mule shoe that Father Truman nailed over the door the day Harry was born is still there. Earp explained: "I cut $5,000 off the price, if the state would allow the placement of a bronze plaque in the living room as a memorial to my mother and father...
...setup for Russia's Eastern Germany must be the result of free, Four-Power supervised elections; 4) the U.S. will not now agree to the withdrawal of occupation troops from Germany (although talk persisted that the U.S. might consider moving its troops to port cities and the French frontier...