Word: pioneerism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PORTABLE PIONEER AND PRAIRIE SHOW by DAVID CHAMBERS and MEL MARVIN...
...will succeed remains to be seen. In any case, their attempts will be closely watched. A host of large companies, including Otis Elevator, Westinghouse, several electric utilities and the big automakers, are waiting in the wings, ready to produce their own electric cars when-and if-a smaller pioneer proves that the market is there...
Astronauts will not return to space until the joint U.S.-Russian venture in 1975. But last week unmanned robot craft were ranging far and wide across the solar system on missions of planetary exploration. NASA announced that Pioneer 11, already three-quarters of the way to Jupiter, will proceed to Saturn and provide the first close-up look at the ringed planet. From Mars, an orbiting Soviet spacecraft sent back new, detailed views of the Martian surface. At week's end, fresh from its reconnaissance of cloud-shrouded Venus, Mariner 10, now nearing Mercury, began transmitting its first pictures...
...space agency's approval of a mission to Saturn will require a course change that will send the craft whipping by Jupiter at a distance of only 26,000 miles. Accelerated by Jovian gravity, Pioneer 11 will then be flung across the solar system for a rendezvous with Saturn in September 1979. The new flight plan was decided upon only after careful analysis of Pioneer 10's performance last December; it came within 81,000 miles of Jupiter's cloudtops and was subjected to an intense bombardment of charged particles from Jupiter's radiation belts. Pioneer...
...many consumers inflation is prompting a reluctant renaissance of pioneer frugality. Mrs. F. Dale Lah of Hampton township, Pa., has begun baking her own bread with store-bought frozen dough and getting by with cheaper cuts of meat by applying more meat tenderizers. "I used to go into a supermarket and buy any brand I wanted, but now I take the one with the coupons," she says. Nessa Forman, arts editor of the Philadelphia Bulletin, has become a paragon of self-control. "I used to think nothing of going into a store and buying a pair of shoes without looking...