Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Your Milestones section [Dec. 14] was of more than passing interest to me because it noted the death of Ruth Law Oliver, pioneer flier...
Died. Ruth Law Oliver, 83, pioneer aviatrix, the first woman to loop the loop in a plane, the holder of numerous speed and distance records, notably with her 680-mile flight from Chicago to Hornell, N.Y., and star of Ruth Law's Flying Circus in the early 1920s; in San Francisco...
WHEN TWAIN, or Norris, or Bret Harte wrote of California's San Joaquin Valley, they wrote of burgeoning industry and pioneer ranchers: of a group of men who strove ruthlessly to throttle natural resources for their own profit. In Fat City, Leonard Gardner speaks only of status and decay, and a society where choices made by men are arbitrary and fruitless...
Pornography's outsize profits are attracting many investors. Stock in Grove Press, a pioneer publisher of salacious books and U.S. distributor of foreign sex films, is now sold on the open market. Trading is scheduled to begin next month in the shares of another purveyor of erotica, Olympia Press; its latest skin flick, Barbara, cost $32,000 to make, grossed $ 11,700 in its second week in Manhattan and is scheduled for national distribution...
...their religious and civil conceptions, they stress the collective more than the individual, obedience more than assertiveness. Properly convened, their supreme International House of Justice is deemed infallible. Baha"u'llah is buried in Israel and Baha'i International Headquarters is there. At one meeting, I heard Baha'i pioneer, Dan Jordan, beamingly report a message the Israeli government once sent the Baha'is: "We love you." Well, perhaps we must courageously and plainly tell the Palestinians: "God is simply not on your side." Or: "Fight on-signs are thickening but the Messiah is still shadowy and the Elect...