Word: frontierisms
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...half-blind, half-dead reservation Indian. The best of all, however, is the wild savage Yellow Feather, Adam Ramirez, who lusts after the white flesh of our Little Mary. By giving Besoyan's characters the right amount of schmaltz, the Sunshine Indians help rebut the John Wayne school of frontier history...
...spot. His mission: to bolster U.S. relations with Greece ; and Turkey and to help resolve the longstanding impasse between Greeks and Turks on Cyprus. In 1974, following the Athens-inspired coup against Prelate-President Makarios, Turkish troops invaded the island, and the savage war left Cyprus with an internal frontier of barbed wire, mines and armor. Turkish forces seized the northerly 40% of the island, causing some 200,000 Greek Cypriots to flee to the south. The war also left the eastern flank of NATO in a shambles, with both the Greeks and the Turks blaming their American allies...
...host of CBS-TV's new Who's Who show. Lately she and Gerald Rafshoon, the Atlanta adman who worked for Carter during the campaign, have been a number. Howar expects the Georgians to bring some needed zing to the capital. Says she: "It's a frontier town again, and that's Washington at its best." Still another potential survivor is blonde Page Lee Hufty, 29, a member of an old moneyed family, who paints, rides, plays tennis and is one of the most eligible bachelor girls in town. She finds the Carter people...
Neruda grew up as Neftali Ricard Reyes Basaolto, just after the turn of the century, on Chile's frontier. His first poems were imbued with the wilderness, the beauty he saw more than the harshness that was a way of life. A father unsympathetic to his creative urges led Neruda to change his name. He unknowingly adopted that of a famous Czechoslovakian poet, Jan Neruda...
...Mercedes limousine glided to a halt at the Italian customs booth in Ventimiglia on the French frontier. The uniformed chauffeur airily pronounced the ritual phrase "Niente da dichiarare" (Nothing to declare). The passenger in the back seat was Carlo Aloisi, 60, one of Italy's leading bankers and businessmen. Normally, the driver would have been taken at his word and waved on. This time, though, the customs guard made a rare, fortuitous spot check. Digging deep into Aloisi's elegant black briefcase, the guard discovered contraband promissory notes and commercial paper valued at $3.1 million. Under the provisions...