Word: missions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week Rosalynn took her mission on the road, traveling 5,500 miles to nine stops and back to Washington in four days, from Chicago to Pine Bluff, Ark. (100°), to Dallas and Harlingen, Texas (103°), to Fresno, Calif. (106°). Scheduled weeks ago, the tour was originally intended to tout such pet projects as a self-help volunteer fair and a community health center and to raise funds for her husband's reelection. But after the recent maelstrom, reported TIME Correspondent Johanna McGeary, the trip turned into a roving revival meeting intended to restore America...
Aboard her jet, Rosalynn answered questions about her mission...
...probe that last month sent back invaluable data on the ring around Jupiter. A cosmic ray physicist born in Iowa and educated at the University of Chicago, Stone teaches at Caltech and directs 100 scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He is now working on a 1983 "solar-polar" mission that will orbit two satellites in opposite directions around the sun's poles. The aim: to learn more about how energy flows from the sun and affects the earth's environment. Says Dr. Bruce Murray, director of the J.P.L.: "It's hard to say where...
...Jesse L. Jackson, 37. "Down with dope! Up with hope!" shouts Jackson to a crowd of 10,000 enthusiastic teenagers. His mission is to inspire ghetto youngsters to change their lives by studying hard. A former aide to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Jackson has spent the past three years taking his Chicago-based PUSH-EXCEL program to schools across the country. PUSH-EXCEL requires teachers to assign homework, students to study two hours a night, and parents to provide support. Follow-up programs are sometimes weak and the long-range effectiveness remains to be seen, but some PUSH-EXCEL...
...part of the program that could have fairly quick impact, if Congress approves, is the creation of an Energy Mobilization Board patterned after the War Production Board of 1942-45. The energy board would consist of three members appointed by and responsible to the President. Their mission: cut red tape. The board would be empowered by Congress to select projects-the building of pipelines and refineries, the opening of coal mines-that it deemed essential to expand domestic fuel output. It then could waive procedural requirements for endless hearings imposed by a maze of environmental, safety and other laws...