Word: pioneers
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Kline, who is research director at New York's Rockland State Hospital and a pioneer in the use of drugs for severe mental illness, charged that public health officials have mostly refused to learn about the new drugs, and that some were actively blocking the use of new knowledge. The foot draggers, he said, included even psychiatrists and social workers who led the fight, decades ago, for more humane treatment of the mentally...
When Gonzalez died in 1942, the world's scrap iron was as precious as its guns. It was not until war's end that sculptors in metal were free to trace his pioneer steps. Now rods, clinkers, nuts and bolts have been fused and forged into the new nature of sculpture, and in its open and bristling aerial forms, there is everywhere homage to Gonzalez...
Princeton was a pioneer in football. It participated in what is generally considered the most intercollegiate football game in America, soccer- like contest with Rutgers...
...good old loafers stashed in her desk. No more must suburban housewives, in town for a day's shopping and a night's entertainment, lug their evening shoes (concealed in paper bags) around with them until dinner and high-heel time. Says Designer David Evins, a pioneer of the walking shoe: "Women want to get away from the 4-in. needle heel. It has an artificial look. Today there is a feeling of desiring comfort and ease in a shoe...
...serious challenge to the once unchallenged monarch of the vending industry, Chicago's Automatic Canteen Co. Another fast comer is Interstate Vending Co. of Chicago, which has bought 25 companies in the past year and recently acquired New York's Brass Rail restaurant and catering chain. (A pioneer in preparing restaurant-quality dinners for vending, Brass Rail supplies machine-served meals to General Electric employees at G.E.'s New York home office.) Interstate's President Ronald Wolff, 31, has made himself one of vending's new millionaires since he started the company in 1955, expects...