Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Henry M. Sheffer '05, professor of Philosophy, emeritus, and a pioneer in mathematical logic, died Tuesday in Boston...
...soon as the operation was finished, Mayo-trained Dr. Gilbert phoned Dr. Richard Wilson of Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, a pioneer transplant center.* With Wilson's help, a supply of Imuran, an anti-rejection drug, was flown to Guayaquil. Luna was given a dose of X rays to further halt the process by which the human body normally rejects foreign organisms, whatever their origin...
...city, currently celebrating its 50th anniversary, reeks of opulence: a two-car family might as well be on relief. But the shape of the place and the nature of its glamour have changed since the golden years, when Hollywood's pioneer stars came to the five-square-mile tract of beanfields, carved castles out of the surrounding canyons, and turned a wasteland into myth, when...
Died. Finley Robertson Porter, 92, automotive pioneer, chief designer of the low-slung Mercer Raceabout, a forerunner of modern sportscars produced just before World War I, which cost $2,500 and is today's most valuable vintage U.S. auto (the 25 known surviving models are each worth at least $18,000); of heart disease; in Southampton...
...postwar breakup into seven independent and fiercely competitive companies, none of which is strong enough alone to finance major developments. And the situation has not been helped by the refusal of the old-time individualistic planemakers to accept the modern concept of team design; the traditionalists believe, as does Pioneer Designer Willy Messerschmitt, now 65, that "the old hares can do the job better...