Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Epithalamium. In London, Susan Stranks arrived ten minutes late for her wedding to Robin Ray, explained breathlessly: "I was so nervous, I had to have a brandy and a ham sandwich." Pressed. In Vassar, Mich., the Tuscola County Pioneer-Times ran a classified ad: "Dry cleaning for delivery yesterday must be received by noon tomorrow at Clark's Cleaners...
Perhaps most notable of all are the scientists: Physicist John Bardeen, who shared a Nobel prize for perfecting the transistor; Astronomer James G. Baker, inventor of a satellite-tracking camera; Chemist R. B. Woodward, synthesizer of quinine and reserpine; Physicist Ivan A. Getting, World War II radar pioneer and now a vice president of Raytheon; Physicist James B. Fisk, president of Bell Telephone Laboratories and the West's chief expert on atom-test bans in the Geneva negotiations with the Russians...
...Hughes Aircraft Co. set up Falcon missile production at Tucson. Word of the easy life spread through family and community grapevines. Chicago's Paul V. Galvin, then president of Motorola Inc., cagily realized that Phoenix would be a good place for luring the scientists and engineers needed to pioneer the electronic age's transistor production, founded an industry that is still doubling and redoubling production and employment...
...Alaska cannot hope to raise taxes appreciably, since it is a pioneer economy trying to attract new industry; it cannot fall back on a bonding program, said the commission, "until there is assurance that the state will be able to meet its bare operating expenses out of current revenues...
...since Milstein first appeared on the U.S. musical scene, he has transformed himself without fanfare from a dazzling virtuoso to a mature master, not only of bravura composers such as Max Bruch and Sarasate, but of Brahms, Beethoven and Bach. Little interested in contemporary music ("I am not a pioneer; perhaps my taste is bad"), he has won a vast audience to his sensitive readings of the classics...