Word: pioneerism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...GROOVE TUBE is a collection of some of the more successful short works of a pioneer in a new form of entertainment: video-tape theater. The fact that all the sequences are, in effect, experiments in this kind of underground television is the only thing that holds them together. What makes Groove Tube look good (and this is really the only thing to recommend it) is the fact that it makes commercial television look very bad by comparison. But everyone knows how bad commercial television can be; Groove Tube needs only to offer a half-decent alternative to look better...
...Four Olds" (old ideas, old culture, old customs, old habits) sent Dai and his friends roaming through Canton, smashing anything that looked faintly bourgeois and changing street names (one group got in a fist fight with another team over whether one street should be East Is Red Road or Pioneer Road). There were minor disappointments ("Old objects became difficult to find, since people began to destroy them themselves"). But on the whole, Dai admits, "we felt like adults, really for the first time...
Pope's Fault. The United Church of Christ was an even earlier pioneer in social use of its investments. In 1965 its home and foreign mission boards began to question companies whose stock they held about equal-employment policies. Since then, two General Synods of the U.C.C. have gone considerably farther. Now the church tries to help worthwhile causes, such as minority economic development, even when the return may be less than bluechip. It opposes investments that are inconsistent with church positions on race, poverty, peace and world development...
LOCKHEED Aircraft Corp., a pioneer in plane building and long the biggest U.S. defense contractor, has gained fame through its Constellation and Electra aircraft, its Polaris and Poseidon missiles, its U-2 spy plane. Rolls-Royce Ltd. has become one of Britain's brightest industrial ornaments by making the most luxurious cars in the world, as well as engines for the Concorde supersonic jet, nearly every plane in the Royal Air Force, and rocket and diesel motors for road, rail and water transport in more than 100 countries. Last week those two storied giants threatened to push each other...
Died. Dr. Paul Schwarzkopf, 84, noted Austrian metallurgist who fled to the U.S. after the 1938 Anschluss and later aided the Allied war effort; in Reutte, Austria. A pioneer in powder metallurgy (a method of producing metal parts without melting the components), Schwarzkopf developed techniques that allowed the U.S. to overcome a shortage of pure iron during World War II and produce millions of parts for field telephones and similar instruments. Among his other discoveries was tungsten carbide, a substance so hard that it has all but displaced diamonds as drill bits...