Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Strumilin is the dean of Soviet economists. He wrote the first drafts of the first of all Five-Year Plans and was a leading spokesman in the Communist campaign that launched Soviet Russia on the path to rapid industrialization in 1928. Of all the pioneer planners, Strumilin alone lived through all purges and party-line changes, and in his old age he enjoys an eminence that within limits enables him sometimes to take a relatively independent course...
Jewish Diaspora will have been the pioneer and pilot community of the new kind. That is a glorious role . . . Let it take heart, and seize its destiny with both hands, now that its long travail is at last on the verge of bearing fruit...
...kinds of sounds are being recast in the stereo mold, but the stereo fan has learned that he can best demonstrate the pingpong effects with the plink and thump of percussion instruments, and stereo records with "percussion" in the title have a Presley-like pull. Command Records, a stereo pioneer, seldom settles for less than two Ps in titles, such as Persuasive Percussion and Provocative Percussion which between them have sold hundreds of thousands of copies since last September. Companies both big and small are doubling in brass. Among the new releases...
...look bigger, less cluttered. Esso is experimenting with colored highways made from a blend of asphalt and tinted polypropylene. With the routes of a cloverleaf indicated by color and with highway signs to match, U.S. motorists would lave less trouble finding their way through superhighway mazes. Hercules Powder Co., pioneer producer of polypropylene, has developed a new glass-and-plastic material for a third-stage shell for the Minuteman missile. It is trans lucent, as light as magnesium and stronger than steel...
Died. Dr. G. (for George) Canby Robinson, 81, medical administrator and a pioneer in psychosomatic medicine, director of the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical College Association from 1928 to 1935, and head of the World War II American Red Cross Blood Donor Service which raised 13 million pints of plasma for the armed forces; after a long illness; in Greenport...