Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dione Lucas, 57, considered the doyenne of fine cuisine in America. Trained at the Cordon Bleu in Paris, she opened a Manhattan branch in 1941, wrote The Cordon Bleu Cook Book, and was one of the pioneer TV chefs in 1947. Her specialty was omelets, and for a while she held forth at her own restaurant, the Egg Basket; now she fills in by doing the cooking at the Ginger Man, a fashionable pub near Lincoln Center...
Died. Murray D. Lincoln, 74, a pioneer in the cooperative movement, who I in 1920 took over the fledgling Ohio...
...service, he is assigned to liquidate two former Nazis who are developing atomic rockets for the Egyptians. It is soon apparent that Rothberg is retelling the history of the Diaspora in this century. Not only has Nissim experienced the full horror of Hitlerism and the hardships of an Israeli pioneer; he is also a man who cannot forget. Indeed, to Nissim, total recall is not a talent but an obsession. He sees himself as an avenger for his people, both defender and violator of his ancient faith, a kind of Jewish Everyman to his generation and his times...
...rusalem has become something of a standard for modern translations: scholars of all faiths freely acknowledge that L'Ecole Biblique is one of the world's most authoritative centers for scriptural study. The school was founded in 1890 by French Dominican Marie Joseph Lagrange, who was a pioneer in countering the age-old Catholic position that to study the Bible was to damage it. Although knowledgeable Protestant and Jewish scholars had long admired the careful work of L'Ecole Biblique's scholars in the field of archaeology, the school came to secular fame only...
...less than $126 million of its annual operating budget of $178 million from work for the Defense Department and NASA, Caltech has 181 federal research contracts and operates NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which will spend $242 million this year. Caltech's practical knowledge made JPL a pioneer in tactical missiles, in launching the first U.S. satellite, in making a soft landing on the moon and in taking close-up pictures of the moon and Mars. At the same time, such speculative M.I.T. thinkers as Physicist Charles Townes, who worked out principles that led to thet maser...