Word: aloftness
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...plays oddments by Frescobaldi, Galuppi, Pasquini, Rossi and Cimarosa-who wrote when the harpsichord was the highest ornament of Renaissance sensibility. Most elegant of all is Scarlatti's Toccata in D Minor, the last movement of which consists of 29 florid variations on an old Italian theme, tossed aloft by Kipnis like fireworks into the night...
...snapped in at 20 knots across Ohio's Clinton County Air Force Base, but all systems were Go. "T minus seven and counting," boomed the range officer's bullhorn. ". . . Five, four, three, two, one-ignition!" And with that, a 12-in. plastic, balsa and paper rocket zoomed aloft bearing a one-ounce payload of lead to the somewhat suborbital altitude of 800 ft. "Good shot," cheered the range officer. "A good bird...
...total of 300 man-hours) on a 1-to-48 scale, complete with a two-man capsule. Sixteen-year-old Albert Kirchner of Bethpage, N.Y., woomphed off a three-stage Little Joe II-Apollo test vehicle that cost him 200 hours of labor. A few pioneers are even sending aloft mice and grasshoppers, which successfully parachute back to earth at the end of the ride...
...crow's-nest, and you can see how he worked toward something like angle shots in motion pictures. Much as a camera does, you zoom in on things." And it is N.C. Wyeth's enduring worth that even today the hearts of oldsters and youngsters alike zoom aloft with...
Green Flag. Unable to get at Whitman from the ground, the police chartered a light plane, sent sharpshooting Lieut. Marion Lee aloft in it. The sniper's fire drove it away. Finally four men, who had made their way separately to the tower building through subterranean passages or by zigzagging from building to building, decided to storm the observation deck. Three were Austin patrolmen who had never been in a gunfight: Houston McCoy, Jerry Day and Ramiro Martinez, who was off duty when he heard of the sniper, got into uniform and rushed to the campus. The fourth was Civilian...