Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...striking naked-eye spectacle in the sky, showed the value of a large, passive reflector from which to bounce radio waves. Transit satellites I-B and II-A were U.S. Navy prototypes for a network that will outmode all previous methods of air and sea navigation. The U.S.'s Pioneer V lived up to its name by spinning into an orbit around the sun, still sending radio messages back to earth when it was 22 million miles away. The problem of greatest interest to most laymen (and of little interest to many scientists), that of sending man himself into space...
...quarter of the freshman class is currently involved in a pioneer study of the College's influence on student values and attitudes...
...visit last weekend of 18 graduates of Harlem's Junior High School 43 program should have demonstrated to Harvard students and Faculty members what other figures in the academic world have long been saying: that New York's pioneer program for underprivileged students is one of the happiest and most useful educational developments to come along in years...
...fine igth century carved eagle, picked up the oldest painting in the show -a 1670 portrait of a two-year-old girl done with quasi-medieval flatness-from the Adams Museum in Quincy, Mass. From the Catskill (N.Y.) Public Library came a Prometheus Bound by pioneer U.S. Landscape Artist Thomas Cole; from Canajoharie, N.Y. a sensitive Italian Head by John Singer Sargent; and from Arizona State University, John James Audubon's Osprey and the Otter and the Salmon...
Connecticut: Democrats are nervous about a big independent small-town registration but Governor Abe Ribicoff, a Kennedy pioneer, should lead a Kennedy victory, especially since Catholics make up 47% of the population...