Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kingman Brewster Jr., LL.D., president of Yale University. A pioneer in the new world of educational diplomacy...
...SPAN consists of six observatories that monitor the sun 24 hours a day. During this week's Apollo flight, they will feed information into a space environment console in Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center, where physicists and medical men will keep a constant vigil. In addition, Pioneer, Vela and other patrolling satellites will report any changes in solar radiation. Should SPAN report a suspicious-looking flare during the Apollo mission at the same time the satellites signal a corresponding increase in high-energy proton radiation, the astronauts in the vulnerable lunar module would be ordered back...
...world, and leave but just two, man and woman, and we'll fill up the whole globe once more and win our triumph!" In this novel, Maclnnes is more than a mugs' guide to a city and a race he loves and mourns. He is a fond pioneer explorer of the almost reachless gap between the races, and what manner of reconciliation may be possible...
...capabilities that no machine can match: "A very wideband set of sensors for acquiring information, a built-in memory and a computer better than our best machine, and a remarkably versatile capability for action and physical operations." Wernher Von Braun, the father of the German V-2 and a pioneer in the U.S. space effort, is blunter. "The space program is the first time we could keep the cutting edge of science and technology sharp without having a major war," he declares. "Goddammit, does it take another war to get technology up to a higher plateau...
...technique blends pragmatism with good Samaritanism. Just about anything goes, including drugs. "Sometimes you have to sock it to 'em," says Dr. Bruce Danto, director of the Detroit Psychiatric Institute's Suicide Prevention Center, a pioneer in a dramatic form of crisis intervention. "You don't have five years for the patient to come up with his own insights. You have to realize that you can't solve all the problems of the world. You just try to patch some...