Word: dust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...typhoons. The Soviets are testing sound as a possible way to disperse fog, have even suggested damming the Bering Strait to make the Arctic warmer. Several countries have suggested melting part of the icecap by coating it with heat-absorbing carbon. U.S. scientists are considering the possibility of generating dust clouds in space to form sunshades, or creating broad bands of ice-crystal cirrus clouds that would allow the ground beneath to cool...
...picture of Mars," Pollack said yesterday, "is much like the Earth without oceans." The dark areas are contintents, and the bright areas are dry ocean basins. There are differences, of course: Mars can support higher mountains because it has less gravity, and it overed with a thick layer of dust...
...Right Behind You." For a time, the controversy all but overshadowed the Mississippi march. As the week began, the marchers plodded through the red dust of Belzoni-where a Negro minister was murdered ten years ago for trying to register voters-and towns with ominous-sounding names like Midnight. At Louise a score of marchers led by King left the main group and headed for Philadelphia, the town of brotherly love, Mississippi-style, where three civil rights workers were slain in 1964. There, white Mississippians soon abandoned the sullen restraint they had shown through the march's first fortnight...
Black power is a ringing slogan in the summer of 1966-one that may well see all the counsel of well-meant moderation choked in Mississippi dust...
...somber, infrequent movie classics, among them The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) and Day of Wrath (1943). Gertrud, made in 1964, is more museum piece than masterpiece, for this muted and stately study of a woman's quest for perfect love already seems to have been gathering dust for decades. It challenges the ingenuity of coterie critics to prove that any Dreyer movie will gleam like gold with a bit of polishing...