Word: sur
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Launched on a near-perfect trajec tory toward the moon, Orbiter 2 briefly lost and then regained its navigational lock on its guiding star Canopus; other wise it was not bothered by glitches. As it sped toward the moon 93 hours later, some 2,770 miles above the lunar sur face, Orbiter's retrorocket fired, slowing the craft enough for lunar gravity to draw it into an elliptical orbit...
...combined Giorgione's Arcadian pastoral with postures from a corner of Raphael's Judgment of Paris, and then transformed them into all-too-contemporary figures, one of them in the buff, picnicking on the banks of the Seine, Napoleon III considered the painting, Le Déjeuner sur I'herbe, a threat to public morals. Both it and Olympia today hang in the Louvre...
...dedicated Point Reyes National Seashore and almost got trapped by a wave. She switched from natural to artificial beauty long enough to help open the San Francisco opera season. Next day she planted a horse-chestnut seedling at Monterey, then hurried along to unveil a plaque along the Big Sur Scenic Highway near Carmel...
...fabulous achievement of Sur veyor 1, which sent back more than 11,000 pictures from the surface of the moon, was a tough act to follow. In a disappointing performance last week, Surveyor 2 did not even come close...
...rush up to the net." Today's middle-agers not only dot the greens, they vault the net. They sail, ski, waterski, skin-dive and spelunk. They swim, walk and climb. They fish, hunt, camp and swarm all over the great outdoors from Big Sur to Cape Cod. They are a participating rather than a spectator generation...