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...same. American Anthropologist Samantha Smith was invited to Moscow by Yuri Andropov for firsthand confirmation of just that proposition (a rare Soviet concession to the principle of on-site inspection). After a well-photographed sojourn during which she took in a children's festival at a Young Pioneer camp (but was spared the paramilitary training), she got the message: "They're just . . . almost . . . just like us," she announced at her last Moscow press conference. Her mother, who is no longer eleven but makes up for it in open-mindedness, supplied the corollary: "They're just like...
...statement released last week. Radcliffe President Matina Horner praised Cronkhite as "a courageous and visionary pioneer who dared to act on her firm belief that women had the right as well as the responsibility to develop and contribute their intellectual talents for the betterment of society...
Christianity now has relatively fewer adherents-some 950,000, split about evenly between Protestants and Roman Catholics-than it had in the decades after Francis Xavier, a 16th century Jesuit and the pioneer Christian missionary in Japan. Says the Rev. Timothy Pietsch, a Baptist missionary: "A Japanese Christian has to give his allegiance to a 'foreign' God and say that he's not first and foremost a Japanese-an impossible task...
...Chappaqua, N.Y., of a heart attack at 61, was a mathematician, physicist, economist, weapons analyst and historian. But above all he was a provocateur in the sedate world of ideas, a futurist who attempted, in his own words, "to cope with history before it happens." He was a pioneer in using scientific and mathematical tools to project the future. With his 300-lb. bulk and a florid face framed by a tailored white beard, Kahn had a commanding presence that seemed to complement a mental and verbal vigor bordering on arrogance. He briefed, and at times berated, every President starting...
Americans are relative newcomers to the Tersk Arabian auction. Kale was a pioneer, making his first purchase in 1975. He says that he made 13 trips to the Soviet Union to obtain Muscat, a stallion that was the U.S. national champion show horse in 1980. In the past eight years, Kale has purchased more than 100 horses from the Tersk farm...