Word: worke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a few days she returned to her vigorous regimen: early morning Mass, a noontime swim in her pool or in Nantucket Sound, and a solitary afternoon of golf on the back nine of the Hyannisport Club. In between, she devotes time to her heavy correspondence, her work in behalf of the mentally retarded, and reading. She has received books on Greek history from Jackie Onassis, and an invitation to go on to Greece on her forthcoming visit to Paris to see her daughter Eunice and her son-in-law, U.S. Ambassador Sargent Shriver...
Last week this deadlock was broken by a sudden Senate compromise. As the House Ways and Means Committee completed work on a comprehensive tax-reform bill, the Senate approved a measure extending the surtax to December 31. Senate passage of the reform bill is expected by midautumn. If the reform measure does not pass, further extension of the surtax will be in jeopardy...
...pictures also contributed immeasurably to the scientific detective work now under way at Houston. There, inside the Manned Spacecraft Center...
Lunar Receiving Lab (LRL), where the Apollo 11 astronauts are spending their postflight quarantine, teams of scientists are trying to put together bits and pieces of the lunar puzzle. Much of the work proceeds at a slow, painstaking pace. Last week, some NASA geologists seemed almost apologetic about their progress. "I've never been so frustrated in my life," complained Mineralogist Elbert King, the LRL's curator. "We've been working for years to get the lunar samples in our clutches. But I was unable to find a single mineral that I could immediately identify...
...first pictures arrived from Mariner 6 when it was still 771,500 miles from the Martian surface. But by the time the spacecraft's cameras finished their day's work, they had recorded 33 pictures and brought earthly viewers within 453,350 miles of the red planet. None of the initial photographs were particularly startling. But Caltech's Robert B. Leighton, director of the photographic work, noted that at least one picture showed a ragged edge at the south polar cap-"possibly caused by the presence of mountains or craters...