Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Romantic Pioneer. Bucky Fuller, as he calls himself and urges everyone else to call him, is a charismatic man who attracted a cultic following even in the days when he seemed to the unclouded eye little more than some kind of a nut. Today, at 68, he is more charismatic than ever and evokes an impressive chorus of enthusiasm from many of those best qualified to judge his work...
...Jacqueline Kennedy took the native intelligence, adventurous courage and quiet bravery of the pioneer women of the old frontier and gave these attributes an elegant refinement. I nominate Mrs. Kennedy "Woman of the Year...
...Centaur generates 30,000 Ibs. of thrust with its two restartable Pratt & Whitney engines. The hydrogen fuel they burn has been the key-and the curse-of the Centaur system from the time it was born on engineers' drawing boards. As early as 1909, U.S. Rocket Pioneer Robert Goddard noted that hydrogen (in liquid form, known as LH.,) might prove to be the optimum chemical rocket fuel. Its light molecular weight, less than half that of standard liquid fuels, gives it 35% more thrust per pound. But LH2 begins to boil above -423 °F., and because...
Homeric Feat. Born in Belmont, Mass., and educated at Brown ('17), Homer once worked as a 13?-an-hour lathe operator during summer vacation. It was as a World War I Navy lieutenant and pioneer submariner that he caught the eye of Bethlehem management at the company's shipyard in Quincy, Mass. After the war, he moved up at flank speed in Bethlehem Ship, became vice president in charge of it in 1940. During World War II, his 200,000-man force turned out 1,127 ships, from landing craft to aircraft carriers, a Homeric feat unequaled...
...Surgeon Michael Ellis DeBakey, 55, of Houston, a bold pioneer in attacking mechanical defects of blood vessels. DeBakey's work ranges from the aorta to the arteries that supply the brain; he has learned to repair them with ingenious grafts or get around the trouble with shunts...