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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ivan Allen Jr. testified in Washington in behalf of a federal public-accommodations law. Negro and white leaders for years kept communications open and helped each other resolve many potentially dangerous situations. Atlanta's white leaders especially were fond of boasting about the city's pioneer work in race relations, its enlightened atmosphere, its sweet and easy black and white common sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Rights: Ruining a Reputation | 2/7/1964 | See Source »

...process. The increased mobility of the labor force is drastically altering the 4,300 U.S. employment agencies, which until recently have usually limited their operations to a single city or region. Today's trend is to chain agencies, which process job openings and applicants nationally. The pioneer of the chains, and the biggest of them, is Philadelphia-based Snelling and Snelling, whose 119 offices in 29 states last year found jobs for 100,000 Americans and brought in $6,500,000 for the company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Employment: Finding Jobs Coast-to-Coast | 2/7/1964 | See Source »

Lewis was also a pioneer in the field of symbolic logic, where he laid the foundations for "modal logic," a branch of logic which has become increasingly important in recent years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Prof. In Philosophy Dead at 80 | 2/4/1964 | See Source »

...Americans should be able to understand this. You were a pioneer country once too ... Sometimes I think there are no two peoples in the world as alike as we are. We have big countries. Much land. No horizons. A sense of power. We care about big ideas. And we both think we have all the answers for the rest of the world...

Author: By Adam Hochschild, | Title: Russian Youth Found Idealistic But Angered By Country's Flaws | 2/4/1964 | See Source »

...sound. Reread today, Aiken seems a classic case of the experimental writer whose experiment is outmoded. He finds himself disconcertingly immured in some Smithsonian Institution of prose when he had aspired to the National Gallery, and viewed with respect only by those who remember that he was a pioneer in territory that has now been settled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Overtaken Pioneer | 1/24/1964 | See Source »

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