Word: comets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bustling, ultramodern Sao Paulo, 400 miles away, James William Orr, 14, complained of fever and a sore throat. A local doctor diagnosed influenza and hopefully dosed him vith medicine. The feverish boy lay around Viracopos airport for hours before he flew, with 82 other travelers, on a Comet 4 jet to Idlewild...
FORD, for the first time, will offer Falcon and Comet convertibles. Falcon sedans will take on the Thunderbird's crisp roof line. The intermediate Fairlane and Meteor will add station wagon models and both will change their grilles, the Fairlane from flat to concave and the Meteor to a forward thrust. The standard-size Galaxie will have its massive circular taillights set into cylindrically sculptured rear fenders in a kind of twin jet effect. So that customers can tell a Mercury from a Ford, the Monterey will boast a reverse-sloping rear window that can be opened and shut...
...look at the starry sky. Since he had to keep watching his instruments, Carpenter could not turn off Aurora 7's panel lights, so his eyes never became adapted to darkness; he saw no more stars than are visible from earth. He did not see the Gegenschein, a comet-like trail of particles that is believed to follow the earth...
...episode served to prove that Audiberti has become what one critic called "a comet in the cosmos." A journalist for 20 years, he has written six books of poetry and 16 novels and essays...
When Luckman's comet burned low in 1950, he went back to architecture in partnership with a gifted Illinois classmate, Los Angeles Architect William L. Pereira. The two built a substantial list of clients, designed the University of California's Santa Barbara campus, the U.S. military bases in Spain, the Berlin Hilton hotel and CBS's Television City in Hollywood. Most of the architecture was frankly Pereira. Luckman wanted to grow bigger and bigger; Pereira wanted to stay small so that he could personally watch over every project from beginning to end. Each got his wish four...