Word: pioneerism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spacecraft emerged from behind the moon for the last time, the astronauts aimed their TV camera at the surface below and sent back the first live pictures of features on the backside that are invisible from earth, including the giant Tsiolkovsky Crater (named for the Russian space pioneer). Next day, some 180,000 miles from earth, Command Module Pilot Evans, who had been out of the spotlight while Cernan and Schmitt walked the moon, took the stage for himself. After emerging from America's hatch, he crawled back, hand over hand, along the side of the ship...
Avneri's cut was unfair as well as unkind. The problem is larger than one aging (74) grandmother's inability to identify with youth. Without even realizing the fact, Israel in the course of 25 years has evolved from a pioneer state into an established society, and like establishments everywhere, it is subject to increasingly bold attacks by the disconnected and the disenchanted...
Died. José Limón, 64, one of the creators of the American modern dance; of cancer; in Flemington, N.J. Mexican-born Limón turned from painting to the dance in 1928, beginning a lifelong association with the pioneer teacher and choreographer Doris Humphrey. Under her guidance Limón began choreographing his own dances, but by the late 1940s had his own group, and with Mentor Humphrey as artistic director, polished his austere, flowing style. His major works include Missa Brevis and Emperor Jones. He is best remembered for The Moor's Pavane, created...
...energy and inventiveness helped make Litton the pioneer in the conglomerate field. Thornton and Ash founded the company in 1953 with a $1.5 million loan. Today, though shaky, Litton is the 35th largest industrial company in the U.S. and the nation's eleventh largest defense contractor. But since the stock had dropped to 13¾ (it once was 120⅜), Ash's holdings in Litton are worth only $3,000,000; his total personal assets come to about $9,000,000. He announced last week that his Litton stock would be sold and the proceeds placed...
Time, Inc., announced yesterday that the Life Magazine, 36-year-old pioneer of weekly pictorial journalism would be issued for the last time on December...