Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 3--A roaring Juno II rocket was launched early this morning carrying Pioneer IV, a potential sun planet. The goal of Army scientists was to hurl a 13-pound gold-plated satellite past the moon, 221,000 miles away, in 34 hours and ultimately into a solar orbit a half million miles from earth...
...Filipinos, Chieftain Lapu Lapu became a hero when in 1521 he killed Portugal's pioneer World Girdler Ferdinand Magellan...
...eleven years as President of the Republic of Korea, grizzled old (83) Syngman Rhee has fought the North Koreans, the Chinese and the Russians. But as a pioneer in his country's struggle for independence, he has fought against the Japanese all his life. At the height of the Korean war, Rhee said that if Tokyo sent troops, "we would turn around and fight the Japanese before the Communists." Last week the old warrior was challenged to a showdown by the country he still reckons as among the first of Korea's enemies...
...PIONEER, Go HOME! (320 pp.)-Richard Powell-Scribner...
Bangs & Kwimpers. In Pioneer, Go Home!, ex-Adman and Novelist (The Philadelphians) Richard Powell has constructed an ingratiating fable of tribal continuity in a world of paper power. The vast apparatus of modern bureaucracy can be defeated only by the semiliterate, such as the Kwimpers of Cranberry County, N.J. The Kwimpers, inbred holdouts against every progressive movement since the Revolution (they spoke Elizabethan English until the school system caught up with them), are the most disgraceful family since the Jukes and the Kallikaks went into the sociologists' black books...