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...sister" smiles, and collective meetings warmed their faith with the feeling of an all female togetherness. Everybody's blood was running high in the temples, and the talk was feverish with urgency and purpose. Womanhood, nothing less, was to be salvaged from its historical oppression, and women burned like pioneer refugees out to rescue...
Millions of Americans take the advice of that 32-year-old song seriously, striking out in neo-pioneer style, attempting to get as far from civilization as possible. Backpacking and exploring rustic roads by trailer have become so popular (see box page 61) that the national parks are clogged. The Interior Department has begun an experimental computerized reservation service so that people will be assured of a plot on which to lay their sleeping bags...
...large Viennese coal company, soon launched his own oil business, and by the mid-1950s owned a string of gas stations in Austria. When the Nazis came in 1938, the young entrepreneur fled to Paris and later to England. Broke and speaking only fractured English, he joined the Pioneer Corps and from there secured a transfer to the Royal Engineers as a battlefield tank mechanic...
...Volonte (gratefully remembered as the title character in Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion), Mattei himself emerges as a fascinating enigma-proud, driven, a masterful manipulator. His sheer energy-and his peculiar sense of realism, which appears to have been a blend of cynicism and idealism-compels attention. A pioneer conglomerator, he headed a state-owned corporation and drove himself not for money (he apparently had no life, let alone luxury, outside the office), but for power and, perhaps, for love of a game in which he delightedly cast himself in the role of spoiler...
Ever since its founding in 1852, Antioch College has been a maverick. It was a pioneer in admitting women and blacks, adopting work-study methods of education and including students on policymaking committees. Now that relative calm has returned to most American schools, Antioch is still out of sync. Its main campus in rural Yellow Springs, Ohio, has been shut down for three weeks, and it is so divided by factional strife that many students and teachers question whether the college can survive. Says one disgruntled faculty member: "In the '50s, Antioch was considered one of the leading colleges...