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...every individual in the communist party. Starting from the age of four, children automatically became part of the Communist political structures under the organization "Falcons of the Fatherland." I was a Falcon and at the time, I took pride in it. At the age of 10 I became a Pioneer and, I would have become a member of the Communist Party if the Revolution had not come...
Margaret Reeb is somewhere in her 80s. In her Livingston, Mont., sitting room stands an ancient upright piano. On a wall hangs a photograph of Reeb and a smiling Eleanor Roosevelt. The topic of her verse--the mountain's beauty, the nobility of the pioneer gold miners who wrested their destinies from it--is a variation on an old frontier theme. Were she merely a wistful ex-schoolteacher, one could dismiss Reeb as a member of a familiar but vanishing species: the Western romantic...
Taking a more measured view of the Supreme Court's pass was Donna Lopiano, a true pioneer in women's athletics and the current executive director of the Women's Sports Foundation. "The impact is as much psychological as anything else," says Lopiano. "A lot of people--football coaches, especially--were absolutely convinced that some rich school would go to the court and salvation would be at hand and Title IX would be overturned. That was their dream. We hope now that they realize there is no out, that we can move forward and do what we were supposed...
...portrait of excellence: a World Series, an MVP trophy, the Rookie of the Year Award (since named the Jackie Robinson Award), a six-time All-Star and, finally, a Hall-of-Famer on the first ballot. How should baseball remember a man who was more than a pioneer, one who was a truly talented player...
...member of the Harvard community since 1934, Wald was a pioneer in the study of how people see. His research on the biochemistry of vision earned him the 1967 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology...