Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Service, pills did not initiate the downturn, since they were not introduced for general use until June 1960, and not used in large numbers until a year later. Nonetheless, nearly 4,000,000 women are now using the pill, and, points out Boston's Dr. John Rock, a pioneer in birth-control development, "they're not getting pregnant." Steven Polgar, research director of the Planned Parenthood Federation, confidently credits the pill with at least one-fourth of the drop since 1961. In selected poverty areas where the pill has been distributed wholesale by social workers, results have been...
...unbroken billet of barely crusted steel creeps down through cooling water sprays and over rollers to burners, which slice it, still red-hot, into handy lengths. The technique has cut production costs by more than $10 a ton for companies such as Roblin Steel of Dunkirk, N.Y., which helped pioneer the process in the U.S. Continuous casting mills are so much cheaper to build than old-fashioned facilities that tiny (80,000 tons a year) Roblin earned a 47% return on its net worth last year. Though continuous casting accounts for only 1% of the nation's 131 million...
President Shetler is a pioneer in G.E.'s aerospace and defense work, was general manager of the company's Defense Programs Division in Washington and headed G.E.'s "think" factory known as Tempo. Roy Larsen, TIME'S first circulation manager and president of Time Inc. from 1939 to 1960, has long had a working interest in education. He helped organize and became chairman of the National Citizens Commission for the Public Schools, and was a member of the President's Committee for the White House Conference on Education...
...whole Passion might well be Newman's own existential question as an artist. Long an artist's artist who has refused to have dealers and did not allow a one-man show until he was 45, he has emerged only in recent years as a kind of pioneer figure for younger, hard-edge artists. As uncompromising as his paintings, Newman believes that at the very least his Stations are "an expression of my own involvement." Thus stated, they may well also pose the question every artist must answer for himself: Why paint...
Died. Joseph E. Ridder, 80, chairman of Ridder Publications, a multimillion-dollar chain of 24 newspapers (Journal of Commerce, St. Paul Pioneer Press), run by a family dynasty, whose successes allowed him to indulge his love of sports, as he put more than $100,000 into the Minnesota Vikings football team and $750,000 into the yacht Constellation in 1964, when it successfully defended the America's Cup; of uremia; in West Palm Beach...