Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pioneer in urban renewal, has won awards for his Chicago Hyde Park and Philadelphia Washington Square East redevelopments, Kips Bay Plaza in Manhattan, and the Pan Pacific Center in Honolulu. He also developed the master plan for several districts of Washington...
...fond, impossible dream of Pope Paul VI, that pioneer of papal travel, is that some day he may go somewhere as a "simple pilgrim." That was how he wanted to style his trip to Bombay last week to attend the 38th International Eucharistic Congress. He envisioned himself meeting and perhaps ministering to the poor, the hungry, the sick. Scorning to charter a plane, he simply bought a first-class ticket (fare...
They practice instead something called "head arranging," i.e., playing a song through a few times to get the "feel," then improvising and embellishing the rest of the way. Says Decca's Owen Bradley, the pioneer of C & W in Nashville: "Perfection is not necessarily what you're looking for. You just want to play free. There's a lot of highly organized faking...
...Nathan S. Kline of New York's Rockland State Hospital was a pioneer in proving that whatever their cause, some mental illnesses can be eased by the drugs now familiarly known as tranquilizers. By 1957 Dr. Kline had won a Lasker award for his work. And in that same year, Dr. Kline convinced him self that since drugs could ease a patient out of agitated or "manic" states, there ought to be other drugs that could ease other patients out of depressions...
...SHOW BUSINESS). Networks have mixed feelings about CATV, but TV stations resent its frequent disruption of local markets with outside channels. Cumberland, Md.'s Potomac Valley TV Co. provides five Washington channels for its 18,000 subscribers, and Panther Valley TV in Lansford, Pa., a 1950 industry pioneer, picks up New York and Philadelphia as well as Scranton; TelePrompTer plans a Farmington, N. Mex., system that will use twelve microwave relays to bring in Los Angeles, 800 miles away. Cable TV's profitability also upsets the telephone companies, which rent the poles for CATV cables at modest costs...