Word: pioneerism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pioneer immigrants brought their foul European diseases with them. Aboard their ships, filthy water and human and animal wastes sloshed around in the bilges for a month or more. Men and women who were healthy when they left Europe were sick when they landed -not only from malnutrition but also from infections picked up at sea. Some, such as smallpox, malaria and measles, proved effective biological-warfare weapons, ravaging the Indians, who had no immunity against them. But most of the disease-causing microbes of the Old World took readily to the fertile soil of the New World...
Died. Sir Mortimer Wheeler, 85, pioneer archaeologist, author, lecturer, star of TV shows like The Grandeur That Was Rome, and, as the Manchester Guardian once sniffed, "Secretary to the British Academy when he's not on television"; in Leatherhead, England. Wheeler supervised excavations in the Indus Valley of India and Pakistan and over a wide area of Roman Britain. He believed in King Arthur, and in southwestern England his diggers unearthed bits of pottery and knives they thought came from Camelot...
...these results, Dr. Albert Sabin, developer of oral polio vaccine and originally a supporter of Ford's program, reversed himself and said that unless there is an actual outbreak, the vaccinations should be limited to "high-risk" people, notably the aged and chronically ill. A rival polio-vaccine pioneer, Dr. Jonas Salk, disagrees. Describing the vaccine as safe, he pointed out that even a partial immunization program reduces the spread of the virus by closing what he calls the immunity gap. Said he: "Vaccine is the most useful tool we have for preventing viral disease...
...economy which really should be restructured to face a reality of monopoly corporate power; belief that supersession of the "special interests" will be a matter of Ralph Nader-type government regulation; and that all we need is an honest man to lead us in sacrifice and renewal of our pioneer toughness...
...long, sometimes treacherous 19th century Westward trek of covered wagons is deeply embedded in American legend, folklore and sense of national identity. Thousands of pioneers, for example, braved the perilous Oregon Trail. Now, to salute the Western settlers, Americans representing all 50 states are replaying history in reverse by forming Eastbound wagon trains. They are set to arrive in Valley Forge, Pa., July 3. The following day, President Ford will address the passengers in the 60 official wagons and approximately 2,000 other travelers. The Pennsylvania Bicentennial Commission sponsored an official wagon from each state, plus ten escort wagons. Wagon...