Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Owen was soon calling these sights by their right names in his own poetry. He wanted people at home to feel the suffering of the maimed, the blind, the dying and the mad, the muddy horror of no man's land where...
Police were still chasing down blind alleys when the prodigal leftist finally turned up last week in Montevideo. He had apparently spent the last few days in Pôrto Alegre, tidying up his affairs; and now he planned to visit "several Latin American countries" with his family. "I am an engineer," he said, "and can support my family by working." But how had he smuggled himself across the border? Simple, says Brizola. He just hopped in a car and drove over...
Except in dire emergencies the pilots of U.S. commercial jets are far too cautious to try blind landings with zero-zero visibility. When weather conditions at their target runways are worse than 200-½ (200ft. ceiling, half-mile visibility), they are diverted to the nearest usable airport, which may be hundreds of miles away. The system is remarkably safe; during 1963 no fatal accident to a scheduled airline was caused by bad landing visibility. But passengers who were taken to Montreal instead of New York were seldom grateful, and airlines suffered financially. The Federal Aviation Agency figures that weather delays...
...where dense, long-lasting ground fog is not nearly as common, the FAA is approaching blind-landing problems by two stages. The present system is Category I. Category II will permit properly equipped jetliners to land when the ceiling is 100 ft. and the visibility is one-quarter mile. The hardware for this technique has already been developed, says FAA. It consists chiefly of new antennas that give more dependable localizer and glide slope beams. One of them will soon be tested on an instrument landing runway at New York's La Guardia Airport...
DREAMTIGERS, by Jorge Luis Borges. Going blind, Argentina's greatest writer has turned inward to the mirrors of his mind, and in this slight volume of poems and parables has dreamed himself into multiplicity of recollections and roles...