Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such sacrifices come cheerfully to the Berrigans. They grew up during hard times in upstate New York, but their father, a pioneer union organizer, and their generous German mother laid out food and shelter for needy friends and strangers alike. Dan joined the Jesuits, Phil the Josephites, an order that works mainly in ghetto areas. Both priests deeply distrust private property because of the greed that it provokes in humanity. Phil, the polemicist, is gregarious and outgoing-a tall, brawny, bear-hugging Burt Lancaster of a man, given to warm laughter amid healthy belts of rye. Dan, the poet...
...Payola Pioneer. Says Feld, 52 next week, "I began dreaming of owning 'the big one' when I was a kid. I'd just been bar mitzvahed when I went off with my brother to pitch snake oil on the Pennsylvania carnival circuit." At 13, Irv and Older Brother Izzie were pulling in $500 a week all summer. That led eventually to ownership of a drugstore in the black ghetto of Washington, D.C., where he took on a line of phonograph records and soon began to produce them. He helped to develop the now illegal "payola" system...
They are mostly young, and they are alienated from the early pioneer and Zionist ideals which current Israeli leaders formulated 50 or more years ago and still represent. In fact, they differ politically from the old-time Zionist leaders still in control of the government, as well as from the newly-arrived Moroccan immigrants...
...cost the lives of Lovell, Haise and Swigert was a cruel but perhaps necessary reminder of the fallibility of man and his machines. The cause of the malfunction will have to be established by a painstaking inquiry. Meanwhile space exploration was humanized again, as it had been during the pioneer flights and on the night when Neil Armstrong made man's first footprint in moon dust. No longer was it an issue of U.S. technocracy, or how many billions the space program costs, or what the funds buy. Rather it was the guts, wits and will of a handful...
Died. Alfred V. Verville, 79, pioneer aircraft designer who in 1914 with Glenn Curtiss designed the famed Curtiss Jenny, and later as a U.S. Army Air Service engineer developed the nation's first welded-fuselage fighter plane with droppable fuel tanks, the PW-1 Pursuit; of a heart attack; in La Jolla, Calif...