Word: pioneers
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DIED. Roswell Garst, 79, Iowa farmer who played host to Nikita Khrushchev during the Soviet Premier's 1959 visit to the U.S.; of a heart ailment; in Carroll, Iowa. A pioneer in corn growing and cattle-feeding techniques, Garst arranged the first sale of U.S. corn seed to the Soviet Union-an act that helped ease East-West relations during the cold war. When Khrushchev visited Garst's Coon Rapids farm, he remarked, "I have seen today how the slaves of capitalism live, and they live pretty well." Describing himself as a sort of corn belt Brigitte Bardot...
DIED. Dr. Robert Collier Page, 69, founding chairman of the Occupational Health Institute and pioneer advocate of company-paid preventive medicine for blue-collar workers; in Ocho Rios, Jamaica. While studying dying miners in the grimy English town of Leeds in 1933-34, he concluded that management should do everything possible to prevent illness in workers, not just take care of them after they become sick. He put some of his ideas into practice as medical director of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey from 1946 until 1955. Said he: "It is not uncommon to find an executive...
...world has seen this year is running (until Oct 16) in Berlin. "Trends of the Twenties," set up by the Council of Europe, contains four exhibitions: some 3,000 paintings, drawings, sculptures, photos, models' posters, documents and every imaginable sort of artifact, from a suprematist teacup by the pioneer Russian abstractionist Kasimir Malevich to a Bauhaus gramophone. The exhibition catalogue is as thick as a brick; one needs persistence, but is richly rewarded. For "Trends of the Twenties" offers a vast and unique panorama of the European avant-garde in its most exacerbated sense of crisis, despair and hope...
While Elvis Presley lived, there was not a single store hawking Presleyana in Memphis. But since his death last month, the reclusive rock pioneer has been merchandised in a manner that would arouse the envy of the smoothest huckster. Outside his Graceland mansion, peddlers vend memorabilia, including dollar bills with Presley's portrait in place of George Washington's (price: $8). A package of 19 original Presley records is being offered for $9,500. A Columbus, Ga., used-car dealer is restoring the singer's first Cadiliac to take on a national tour. A Delaware outfit called...
...title.) Daniel Boone is back, or rather Young Dan'l Boone. This time he is 25 years old and accompanied by a runaway slave and preteen sidekick on his wilderness walks for CBS. For long-neglected horse opera fans, Rod Taylor will bit The Oregon Trail as a pioneer plodding west for NBC, Big Hawaii will go even farther west on NBC-to Paradise Ranch, where a cantankerous family of cattle ranchers haggle over their island Ponderosa...