Word: pioneerism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reverse the entire American pioneer act," State Senator Jay Hammond says. The great?and fragile?land is patently incapable of holding an unlimited number of people. Most planners believe that twice as many people as now may well be quite enough. The old theory that Alaska's sheer size and emptiness can absorb any insult without ill effect has by now been disproved by all too many examples. Instead, new growth must be selective and controlled...
Does this unreported aftermath jeopardize the validity of the book? Perhaps. Read closely, however; all the later developments are there, at least potentially. Here is a man who is obviously one of the great surgeons of any time, a searching, pioneering intellect who questioned accepted practice, a man with a mind like a scalpel-no more or less attractive. As an account of genius, the book tells it like it is. As an account of personality, it tells more than Barnard probably intended. Either way, it is a fascinating report from that shadowy land of the pioneer...
Married. Dr. Jonas E. Salk, 55, pioneer of the first polio vaccine; and Françoise Gilot, 48, longtime (1944-54) model and mistress of Pablo Picasso, an artist of repute in her own right, whom Salk first met a year ago while she was visiting friends in California; both for the second time; in a civil ceremony in Paris...
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY Jacques Cousteau, D.Sc., underwater pioneer. He has wrested up to the light the live sea scrolls of his "world without...
...pioneer in the study of science and technology's impact on political institutions and public society...