Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Literacy Pioneer Frank Laubach, who in 30 years has taught 100 million adults in 100 countries to read...
...could say about the show, and that he didn't want to discuss his theory of humor, or anything like that, so instead we asked him (feeling our time drawing to a close) about his background. He grew up in and around London, where his father was a pioneer in modern criminological research. His university was Cambridge (St. John's College), and his medical training had come at University College Hospital (part of the University of London...
...them so self-conscious about their lack of education that one man, for example, habitually carried a newspaper with him to mask his total illiteracy. Next month, enrollment will reach 8,000, and 10,000 more people are waiting to sign up. If he can find the money. Pioneer Hilliard hopes to expand to 60,000 students. All he needs is $2,000,000 a year-not so much compared to Cook County's $16 million monthly relief bill...
...Michigan has a long and unenviable record of applying political pressure on its public universities. At Wayne State in Detroit, curriculum and personnel have, from time to time, been subject to a tacit veto by the state legislature which allocates funds. Michigan State, which boasts of being the "pioneer land grant college," seems to be receptive to similar pressures...
...account, Aluminum Pioneer Davis was the fifth richest man in the U.S. A penniless New England preacher's son, he spent 60 years building the Aluminum Co. of America into one of the world's industrial giants. At 80, he retired to Florida, seemingly ripe for a pipe, cabana and canasta. Instead, he began a second career of buying Florida real estate. Soon he owned an airline, a shipping company, an ice cream plant, one-eighth of Dade County (Miami), 20,000 acres in the Bahamas, 200,000 acres on Cuba's Isle of Pines...