Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Willard Libby, Sc.D., Nobel Prize chemist and atomic energy pioneer. Leon Uris, L.H.D., author...
...gravity on a rocket's nib. The astronaut, says Sir George Greenfield, a literary agent who has specialized in accounts of explorations, "is more like a bus driver than an adventurer." The Viking spacecraft investigating Mars are made of thinking metal. The only humans aboard the Pioneer 10 spacecraft are the little sketches of a man and a woman that are meant to show extraterrestrial creatures what we look like. Still, says Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on ground other than that of earth, "we are dealing with the spirit of mankind, searching on into infinity...
...owned the barns balked at first. "They wanted to be sure we wouldn't have any nudes or anything," says Cindy Brennan, 18, who worked on the Hennessey bright barn of portraits. With the farmer won over, the whole community would pitch in with the spirit of a pioneer barn raising. Local merchants contributed paintbrushes, rollers, tarps and scaffolding. Adult volunteers provided transportation and meals. Pittsburgh Plate Glass and Sears, Roebuck supplied the paint. As many as 15 to 25 teen-agers helped plot the design, scaled it up on the barn wall and daubed in the pigments...
...most interesting personality in the history of Harvard golf is probably James A.Tyng. Tyng was something of a sporting pioneer, who took up golf in 1895 well after graduating Harvard in the 1870's. The first man to break 80 at the Morris County club, Tyng was an extremely temperamental player...
...chief monster woman, Dede Cooper (Estelle Parsons), is a pioneer zealot of regional theater, and she has nursed the Alamo into its present quarters, a huge Gothic pile. Dede can squash mountains as though they were bugs, but she has a doughty foe in a widowed moneybags named Joanne Remington (Rosemary Murphy), who believes that when money talks, Dede should shut up. Joanne's plan is to install a codirector, Shirley Fuller (Jan Farrand), who will siphon off Dede's authority...