Word: agee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambridge scientists have been selected to examine the lunar material collected by the astronauts of Apollo 11 and subsequent moon shots. The investigators, two of them Harvard professors, will test the samples lunar crust for such qualities as mineral content, age, and possible traces of life...
...results of these tests could help to answer such important question as the composition of the moon's surface, the age of the moon and its origin...
Professor Patrick Hurley of M.I.T., who will be working with radioactive isotopes in determining the age of the samples, explained that the dating process was important to the controversy surrounding the origin of the moon. The results could clarify whether the moon was a meteorite pulled into orbit by the earth's gravity or whether it was once part of the earth...
...cement and gravel trucks will rise to $266.80 for a 40-hour week by July 1971; on top of that, fringe benefits will go up $44.40. The benefits include a pension plan that allows a Teamster to retire on $400 a month after 20 years of driving, whatever his age...
There is a fine Gallic impudence to the notion: take Robinson Crusoe, that age-of-reason parable of Western civilization's triumph over rude nature, and turn it upside down. In this position Crusoe's diligence, rationality, racial pride and Christian ethics-the very qualities that in Defoe's handling ensured Crusoe's survival-get lost while Crusoe accepts the "primitive" values of his black manservant. Call the book Friday to make the irony unmistakable. So much for Western civilization...