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...small-town Polish-Jewish life, which he left behind in 1906. Inspired by a Hebrew-Zionist upbringing, shocked by anti-Semitic pogroms in Eastern Europe, he went to Turkish Palestine "to build it and be rebuilt by it," as was the motto of those days. He became a pioneer, a farmhand, active with early Zionist-socialist groups. At age 19 he was what he would remain all his life: a secular Jewish nationalist who combined Jewish Messianic visions with socialist ideals, a man with fierce ambition for leadership, extraordinary tactical-political skills and a sarcastic edge rather than a sense...
Jason C. Hurdich, an ASL teacher working with CODA, called Valli "a pioneer...
DIED. FRED FRIENDLY, 82, broadcasting pioneer and former president of CBS News whose early documentary work set the standard for journalistic integrity; in New York. Friendly quit CBS when the network ran a repeat of I Love Lucy while NBC broadcast a live Senate hearing on Vietnam. (See EULOGY below...
...some, all this spelled revolution, though except for the bloody battles fought by union organizers, strikers and company goons at some factory gates, it was a remarkably peaceful one. The New Deal, after all, reflected another deeply held belief with roots in the nation's pioneer past: that Americans take care of their own. Though there were those who hated him, F.D.R. by 1936 had inspired enough public hope and confidence to win one of the most overwhelming electoral victories in U.S. history...
DIED. PATRICK CLARK, 42, pioneer of all sorts: first as a chef whose embrace of French cooking in the 1980s left patrons and rivals sighing, "Merveilleux!"; then as a parent of 1990s American nouvelle cuisine boom; and, as head chef at such to-die-for spots as Odeon and Cafe Luxembourg, one of the first blacks donning the top toque; of a heart attack; in Princeton...