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...pioneer. Folks over in Europe have spent an awful lot of time, more than 200 years if you're counting, getting up on their high Lipizzaners and calling us a nation of gears and wheels. But we know better. What do you say? Are you ready to join your fellow countrymen (4 million Americans can't be wrong) and take home some bytes of free time, time to sit back after all the word processing and inventorying and dream the dear old dream? Stand with me here. The sun rises in the West. Play it, Mr. Dvorak. There...
...attempting to match that misguided mission, Karen Key, 28, of Denver's NBC affiliate, KOA-TV, was not so lucky. When word came that a Pioneer Airlines commuter plane was missing in treacherous icy weather, a copter crew from one station refused to take off and another crew turned back in midflight. But Key, the nation's first woman TV reporter-helicopter pilot, pressed on. Within 45 minutes, she and Mechanic Larry G. Zane, 28, slammed into a snowy stand of pine trees near Larkspur, Colo., and died almost instantly...
Driven by this conviction that scientists have a moral obligation to influence policy, he spent the years after 1959 lending his weight to the "good side," trying to control the weapons he helped to pioneer. He personally brought scientific specialists and political decision-makers together in Washington to share ideas and debate issues on the nuclear arms race. As I was to learn later, this was only one of the many contributions to arms control he made as chairman of the Council...
...afternoon, Waging Peace, a local organization, will present a panel discussion in Sanders Theater with Randall Forsberg, a pioneer in the nuclear freeze movement; John R. Silber, president of Boston University; and Henry W. Kendall, chairman...
Judge Francis Poitrast of the Boston Juvenile Court, a pioneer of the original movement for decriminalization and a co-author of the 1973 CHINS legislation, offers a cynical explanation for the enthusiasm of court officials. "Probation officers don't like their job because it forces them to perform. They have to deal with these people, with these families, and they would much rather be able to put the burden on some social service program...