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...according to the American Council for the Behavioral Sciences in the Kibbutz, which is making a five-year study of the collectives, industrialization need not destroy the movement. For one thing, factories provide the prestige of work for the aging, a group that did not exist in the youthful pioneer days. The emotional problems of the elderly can be serious: according to Social Anthropologist Melford Spiro, loss of ability to compete with younger men at heavy farm work is a major cause of psychological insecurity in older chaverim (members...
Died. Igor I. Sikorsky, 83, Russian-born aviation pioneer who developed and piloted the first practical helicopter (see SCIENCE...
STEWART RAWLINGS MOTT, 34, New York City philanthropist, son of the General Motors pioneer and major stockholder Charles Stewart Mott. Gifts: McGovern, $212,361; Lindsay, $5,000; McCloskey, $5,500. Loans: McGovern...
...Company makes a point of debunking assorted myths of the Old West and the glorious pioneer tradition, all in a congenial, chiding sort of way that begins to wear long before the last scene...
...First Lady. "Yes, I am. I've got the greatest guy in the world." Presented with a sunbonnet, she put it on and kept it on all the way back to Washington, ex plaining whimsically: "I think this is the real me. I could really be a pioneer." In a sense she is, and while sophisticates may dismiss such doings as cornpone, the crowds love...