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...extreme. Peruvians are at least willing to let him try. "We must not be afraid of greatness," he says. "We have lost the habit of thinking on a grand scale, of conceiving works that, like the Panama Canal, change the geography of a continent. The hour of the pioneer, the founder of new cities, must be sounded. Nature is our enemy, and nature can be overcome...
Newman upheld TV's right to Milquetoast programming, even on newscasts: "I don't think it's realistic to expect organizations that live by advertising to pioneer in fields that may offend people." With some justice, he made news brevity on TV a virtue: "One reason we have such a great impact is that we edit. We edit to a degree that I think it is fair to say the New York Times does not. It doesn't edit very often; it compiles...
...educated in Texas, Lawrence was a Link Trainer instructor during World War II, started a Texas feeder airline with two partners after the war. He flew while studying for a law degree, later took over the sales department of the small line, which changed its name from Essair to Pioneer. Continental got Lawrence in 1955 when it absorbed Pioneer, quickly recognized that he was the most valuable asset acquired in the deal. By 1958, Continental President Robert Six had promoted Lawrence to executive vice president-the industry's youngest-in charge of the airline...
Effective Representation. The biggest surprise on Paul's list was the elevation of three European priests who have never governed a diocese and probably never will. Belgian Monsignor Joseph Cardijn was founder of the worldwide Young Christian Workers movement, a pioneer in theologically exploring the role of the layman in the church. Monsignor Charles Journet of Fribourg is a respected ecumenical theologian. Father Giulio Bevilacqua was the Pope's confessor during his seminary days, but now serves as pastor of a poor church in the northern Italian city of Brescia. Bevilacqua assured his parishioners that he would continue...
Died. Sumner Sewall, 67, pioneer aviator and Republican Governor of Maine from 1941 to 1945, a World War I ace (seven planes, two balloons) who teamed with Juan Trippe in 1926 to fly the first New York-to-Boston airmail run, as Maine's World War II Governor organized one of the country's first Civil Defense Corps, later returned to aviation as president of American Overseas Airways, helped build it into a major transatlantic carrier before it merged with Trippe's Pan American in 1950; of a heart attack; in Bath...