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...Masters and Johnson were pioneers," says Psychologist Peter A. Wish, executive director of the New England Institute of Family Relations in Framingham, Mass., "and when people pioneer, they can't have all the answers." Dr. Carol Nadelson, professor of psychiatry at Tufts-New England Medical Center, agrees that "their research methodology raises some questions," but she cautions that "one could get sticky about methodology and never get anything done...
...Reagan as actor: Some might say Reagan as reactor is more accurate, but supporters claim he will restore that community of shared values, that pioneer spirit, that thrill of victory so evident in his many films. Family, work, neighborhood, peace and freedom: the stuff from which good, sappy, Hollywood films are made. Reagan as president would simply have the lead role, and he would "show" the international arena a thing...
Progress made the American idea work; progress validated the dream-a kind of secular redemption, profligate with promises, the hot gospel of better days unfolding. Progress was the indispensable mechanism and metaphysic of the American idea: the pioneer progression westward over space corresponded with the steady upward incline of opportunity over time. "You can't stop progress," Americans would tell one another with an air of dazzled exuberance or a rueful sigh. The future was bearing down on the land like a grinning child at the wheel of something roaring, gaudily bright and faintly dangerous...
DIED. William A. Patterson, 80, U.S. aviation pioneer who as president and later chairman of United Airlines for 32 years (until 1966) made it the world's largest commercial air service; after a long illness; in Glenview, Ill. With the backing of Planemaker William E. Boeing, Honolulu-born Patterson in the 1930s put together four small freight carriers to form an airline that now serves 112 U.S. and Canadian cities and boasts annual revenues of $3.4 billion. Among Patterson's innovations: hiring what he called female couriers, forerunners of today's stewardesses...
...high levels is strong, even away from the shop floor, and Dedkov insists that at the Minsk factory there are no discussions about whether workers can fulfill the plan. The talk is only about ways to overfulfill it. "If we work well, we can build more rest centers, pioneer camps and preventive medical centers," he says. "If we don't, we must cut back. Everyone from the factory director on down works with this in mind...