Word: pioneers
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Swinging Wing. The TFX-now known officially as the F-111-is something of a pioneer aircraft. The two-man, 1,650-m.p.h. plane is equipped with the world's first afterburning turbofan engines, has a revolutionary swing-wing-the sort envisioned in one of the designs for the nation's first commercial supersonic transport. The wing, which is crucial to the multipurpose role planned for the TFX, enables the plane, in effect, to redesign itself in flight. The plane sweeps back its wings in a dartlike configuration for supersonic flight, extends them to full span to slow...
Died. Helen Tamiris, 64, dancer and choreographer who was trained as a classical ballerina with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet in the 1920s, but soon joined with Martha Graham and other rebels to pioneer modern American dance, later choreographed such Broadway hits as Up in Central Park, Annie Get Your Gun and Fanny; of cancer; in Manhattan...
This Inhuman Clay. Caro is amply qualified to pioneer the engineer's esthetic in art. Son of a stockbroker, he took an engineering degree at Christ's College, Cambridge in 1944, then studied art for six years, mostly at the Royal Academy Schools, before serving a two-year apprenticeship under Henry Moore. Not until 1957 did he have a one-man show in London of savage figurative bronzes, which drove a critic to gasp, "One almost wishes them back into clay." Caro gave up modeling in clay as "lifeless." A trip to the U.S. opened his eyebeams...
...present, the lounges are open only to members. The "club" tradition start ed in the early days of flying as a reward for the brave, pioneer passengers. The clubs charge no membership fees and have rather vague qualifications for admission. In the lingo of the lines' public-relations people, Pan American's Clipper Club, the biggest of them all, with 175,000 members, is for travelers "who have made a contribution to international understanding"; American's 100,000-strong Admirals Club is for people who have made "a contribution to aviation"; the 100,000 members...
...University also honored three prominent scientists: John Rock '15, Clinical Professor of Gynecology, Emeritus and a pioneer in birth control (LL.D.); John H. Van Vleck, former dean of the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics and a forerunner in discoveries in quantum theory, who received a Doctor of Science; and chemist Manfred Eigen, division director at Max Planck Institute for Physical Chemistry at Goettingen, Germany, a pioneer in perfecting techniques to measure chemical reactions to a minute fraction of a second, who also received a Doctor of Science...