Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most pro football fans, Sonny Werblin, 58, president of the New York Jets, epitomized the American Football League; both were abristle with pioneer spunk and freewheeling showmanship. Werblin led the Great Money War against the entrenched N.F.L., shelled out more than $1,000,000 in bonuses to sign first-class players, regularly topped the league in attendance. Now Sonny is stepping out, will sell his 23.4% of the Jets (estimated initial cost: $200,000) to his four silent partners for a rumored $1,600,000. The trouble, complained Sonny, is that his partners want to share the show. Said Werblin...
...longest any of the patients survived was 18 days. Despite the minimal experience and maximal risk, a team of ten doctors and ten assistants made a fourth try at Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary last week. The team was headed by Scotland's Dr. Andrew Logan, a pioneer in heart-valve surgery. The patient: 15-year-old Alex Smith of the Isle of Lewis, one of Britain's Outer Hebrides islands, who accidentally swallowed enough weed killer to damage one of his lungs critically. The donor: Anne Main, an 18-year-old Edinburgh bank teller who died...
...commercial-aviation pioneer cut from the same mold as Eastern Air Lines' Eddie Rickenbacker, United's William A. Patterson and American's C. R. Smith, Trippe was the last of them to relinquish command. And the manner of his departure was typical of the reticent executive. Presiding over Pan Am's annual shareholders meeting, barely 24 hours after the airline's other top brass first got the word themselves, he casually dropped the news at the end of a 45-minute speech on company finances. When 62-year-old President Harold E. Gray, his hand...
Dispute rages among both press and campaign staff members about the origin of the name, "Hoosier," but reliable sources in the metropolitan Indianapolis area say that the word originated on snowy nights in pioneer Indiana. Tired travelers wandering their way West would knock on the doors of isolated log cabins, and from the inside a friendly pioneer would ask in his nascent midwestern twang, "Who's there...
...these days are from Arab lands and are not easily assimilated among educated Jews from Europe, who are concerned that the country may take on a Levantine rather than a Western character. Labor Minister Yigal Allon believes, however, that Israel can still offer Jews the "purposeful life" of a pioneer at a time when more affluent Western societies seem to "lack a social motive." Despite the uncertainty of their future, the Israelis themselves still find advantage in that life and intend to show the world this week that they have the spirit and the military strength to keep...