Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. James Howard ("Dutch") Kindelberger, 67, bluff, salty-tongued pioneer of U.S. aviation, who took the presidency of an embryonic North American Aviation in 1935, built it into an industrial giant with sales of $1.2 billion and a work force of 80,000; of congestive heart failure; in Pacific Palisades, Calif. Operating on the philosophy that "nobody ever pulled a rabbit out of a hat without carefully putting one there in the first place," Dutch Kindelberger organized his industry's first mass-production assembly line, during World War II cranked out a total of 25,486 P-51 fighters...
...Pioneer Spirit. "We love all the things you can do out here," says Dr. Chester L. Meade, 76, a tanned, lithe, white-haired man who gave up his dental practice in Mason City, Iowa, and moved to Sun City last November. His wife Mabel chimed: "People say, 'But don't you miss Mason City?' Those dear friends, yes, but not Mason City. We're not lonely at all, and the people are so friendly here...
Danville, Ky., Pioneer Playhouse: No. 4 in a series of ten new plays: A Terror Since September by Chicago Engineer R. C. Lesser, whose blueprints will be used as decor in this psychological drama...
...coronary thrombosis. There is as yet no proof that a diet low in saturated fats, or a drop in the blood cholesterol, will prevent or in fluence coronary disease." Although the medical profession cannot yet make up its collective mind on these matters, Dr. Master gave much credit for pioneer research to Dr. Ancel Keys (TIME cover, Jan. 13, 1961) and the late Dr. Norman Jolliffe, who founded New York City's Anti-Coronary Club (former and potential coronary cases...
Danville, Ky., Pioneer Playhouse: One of a planned series of ten new plays by ten new playwrights, Hero to His Son, a comedy-drama by TV Writer John Lynn...