Word: byronical
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Late last week TIME Correspondent Christopher Byron flew over the island and described this scene: "At a distance of 50 miles, the inky horizon shimmered with an eerie red glow. At a distance of five miles, fly ash and stones peppered the plane's cockpit, making the sort of sound one hears when driving through a swarm of locusts. As we came still closer, fountains of flaming rock hurled up past us in the night, reaching heights twice that of the Empire State Building. The night turned from black to red, and the air smelled like sulfuric fumes from...
...almost worthless; besides, it is hard to find more than half a dozen interested in the same subject at once. It appears to us quite out of the question to speak to the half-dozen and neglect the hundreds. Let those who think differently consider well this line from Byron, that served as the motto of one of our predecessors,--"I won't philosophize, I will be read." January...
...otherwise "hot"-is fleeing Nassau. Millions of dollars are landing in, of all places, the Cayman Islands, a British crown colony south of Cuba. Once a pirates' stash, the Caymans have existed for the past 300 years mostly by soaking up the Caribbean sun. TIME Correspondent Christopher Byron visited both Grand Cayman Island and Nassau and filed this report...
...British-built Tridents and for three Anglo-French Concordes, the supersonics scheduled to go into service in the West in 1974. Why does China need so many new planes? "The Chinese do not have a very wide network of roads or a vast railway system," says Boeing Vice President Byron Miller, leader of the company's China delegation. "The cheapest way for them to obtain transportation to many places is the airplane, and I see a great potential in China for aircraft of all types." Miller expects to see some of the 707s flown by the Chinese to distant...
...crusader. He sweats heavily, walks with a limp, talks in a backwoods drawl, and his shirt often spills out of his baggy pants. But he loves the swamps, which he explored as a child on fishing trips with his father. "All I want," he told TIME Correspondent Christopher Byron, "is for children in years to come to have the same pleasures I've had in these waters...