Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seven out of the 25 letters in your Feb. 10 Letters section were from Californians. Does that suggest that in our modest pioneer state reside the nation's largest percentage of informed, thinking, action-taking citizens? Or are we just the yak-yakinest...
Fifty years ago this notion was considered ludicrous, impractical and, perhaps, slightly effeminate, yet he believed that no musical standards "could preserve (their) integrity in the face of the experimental spirit of the musical pioneer." He complained in his book Church Music that "it seems to me every time I have had what appeared to me to be a really perceptive or productive idea someone has promptly told me that it wouldn't work; that it was impractical, visionary." That supermarkets now sell classical music records demonstrates that Davison was both correct and influential, but he, the indomitable idealist still...
...delighted with the write-up of Ancel Keys and his work. He has been a very important pioneer in what we call cardiovascular epidemiological research, really the spark that has helped to set innumerable people working on this important subject...
Leave the Pebbles. Their way of life, however, is pioneer Israeli. Three years ago a Parisian metallurgical engineer named Vincent Thibout, then 33, took his pregnant wife, Therese, to Israel, where they spent 18 months in a kibbutz (collective). He learned how to farm and speak a fluent facsimile of Hebrew; he strews his talk with as many shalom as an ordinary Frenchman with alors...
Died. Giuseppe Mario Bellanca, 74, son of a Sicilian miller, who suffered mysterious psychosomatic pains until he satisfied a compulsion to fly, became a pioneer pilot, instructor (one student: Fiorello La Guardia), and designer whose monoplanes were the first to make nonstop flights carrying a passenger across the Atlantic (1927) and spanning the Pacific (1931); of leukemia; in New York City...