Word: space
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Agnew's only constitutionally mandated job is presiding over the Senate, but his highly fragmented duties include heading the Space Council, the President's Council on Youth Opportunity, the Office of Intergovernmental Relations and the National Council on Indian Opportunity. White House business occupies up to 15 hours of his week?meetings of the National Security Council, the Cabinet, the Urban Affairs Council, the Environmental Quality Council, plus a weekly gathering of the Republican congressional leadership...
...planted the American flag on the moon during their epic visit last July. The Apollo 12 astronauts, who are due to lift off this week, will do the same. The gesture will soon become more than a matter of tradition. Last week, when the Senate approved the $3.7 billion space authorization bill for 1970, congressional chauvinists had the final word. The bill orders U.S. astronauts to raise the flag as one of their initial acts on reaching firma beyond terra...
Among those who are to gather this week at the cape to watch the blast-off is Richard Nixon, who will be the first President to witness a launching. It will be Nixon's second space first as President. In July, he was aboard the carrier Hornet to welcome back the Apollo 11 astronauts...
...front lines were thinking this way and were asking themselves just what the hell they were doing waiting to be bashed in the head. "I didn't come here to do this." one boy announced before surrendering his front-line position. A paratrooper immediately moved up and filled his space. "Is it worth it?" one boy asked after his girlfriend had been abducted-no one had an answer...
...Besides adding space, the new building will improve "the helter-skelter arrangement of the present buildings and will provide the visitor with a definite entrance." Goldberg said. "The entrance will have an exhibition area and a new library will be located nearby so an arriving visitor will see a lot of activity...