Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paddle-wheeled planetoid Pioneer V, launched March 11, is on its way around the sun in an orbit between Earth and Venus, sending back information on radiation, temperature, micrometeorites and magnetic fields on its small, five-watt transmitter...
...people in the Susitna valley, the last whines of winter had special meaning: it was just a year since 37 pioneers from Michigan-the well-publicized "Fifty-Niners"-arrived in the pioneer country to hack out a new life for themselves (TIME, May 11). Some of their number have gone home discouraged; others have moved to the cities; a few staked out homesteads in other valleys. Along the Susitna remained only 13 undismayed pioneers and their children...
RHEUMATIC DISEASES. Ten years' experience has shown that hormones of the cortisone family, while giving temporary relief, often do as much harm as good in rheumatic diseases. But the Mayo Clinic's famed Dr. Philip S. Hench, pioneer (with Chemist Edward Kendall) in the extraction and use of these products, struck out on a bold new line. The natural pituitary hormone ACTH and the cortisone-type drugs, he said, must be viewed not only as remedies, but also as research tools. His new theory, based on observations of thousands of patients: it is neither a simple excess...
Half & Half. In Woolwich, England, Barmaid Kathleen Kelly, fined $5.60 for selling watered-down whisky, admitted that she is a member of the Pioneer Total Abstainers League...
...Pioneer & Prophet. As any skindiver will readily admit, his sport is almost the singlehanded creation of a lean (6 ft., 154 Ibs.). visionary Frenchman named Jacques-Yves Cousteau. He is, all in one. its pioneer, foremost promoter, prophet, and poet. As the developer of the Aqua-Lung, he set divers free to roam in the kingdom of the fish. With his book The Silent World (1953). he became diving's foremost philosopher. The prizewinning film made from the book opened the world's eyes to the magic world under the sea, sent both scientists and pleasure seekers hustling...