Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Incomex '66, opened case after case of Scotch for their visitors, who thirsted not only for knowledge. From New York, London, Vienna and Stuttgart, IBM rushed in programmers to solve particular problems. Sperry Rand, displaying eight plaques representing earlier sales to Communist customers, advertised itself proudly as "The Pioneer of Automation in Socialist States...
Died. Adolph Germer, 85, German-born labor pioneer, who started in the Illinois coal fields at age eleven, had worked his way up to the United Mine Workers vice presidency when John L. Lewis tapped him in 1935 to organize the Detroit auto workers as Lewis lormed the C.I.O., incidentally giving abor one of its leading lights when he lired Walter Reuther as an organizer; of cancer; in Rockford...
...This World. Long regarded as a pioneer in modern dance, Nikolais has had to blaze his trails in the relative wilderness of Manhattan's Lower East Side, where even the off-off-Broadwayites rarely penetrate. Vaudeville was staged last week in the troupe's permanent home, a small (348 seats) theater nestled between a drugstore and a Jewish bakery and operated by the Henry Street Settlement, an institution primarily devoted to neighborhood social work. Despite this isolation, Nikolais has built a big following that now affords him the luxury of a 21-week season and an increasing number...
...Reading about the retirement of Airline Pioneer Patterson [May 6], I was amazed that you believe only two pioneers remain active. Without downgrading Trippe and Smith, how about Collett Everman Woolman, who at 76 is still sole boss of Delta Airlines, seventh-largest airline in the world? Woolman pioneered crop dusting in 1925 and inaugurated the first mail-passenger airline on the West Coast of South America in 1928 (this line became Panagra). President of Delta since its founding in 1929, Woolman takes second place to no one for continued, consistent airline management, and he is not about to retire...
Judex adds a subtle, sophisticated and endearing chapter to the swollen literature of cinematic pop art. In homage to French Movie Pioneer Louis Feuillade, Director Georges Franju tenderly resurrects Judex, a formidable mass hero whose dime-novel adventures burgeoned on the silent screens of France between 1916 and 1918, decades before Superman got off the ground as a force for good. Happily, Franju never yields to the temptation of playing a soggy old classic for easy laughs as a smart-alecky spoof. Instead he celebrates it with sound, as a nostalgic song of innocence, an ode to an era when...