Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flight of light planes hovered like hummingbirds over the green eastern jungle of Peru last week, dipping into tiny airstrips and steaming rivers to pick up waiting passengers, then heading back to a tin-roofed hangar by remote Lake Yarinacocha. They discharged their passengers, U.S. Protestant missionaries and their Indian assistants, darted back for more. One of the world's most gallant little airlines thus brought together the 300 missionaries and workers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics to S.I.L.'s yearly refresher course...
Over the Andes. A dozen years ago the Summer Institute of Linguistics got the idea of flying its missionaries into Peru's roadless interior, used a wartime Grumman Duck piloted by U.S. Missionary Pilot Betty Green. The case for taking to the air was overwhelmingly proved; five hours of flying covered as much space as eight weeks of canoeing in crocodile-infested rivers past hostile Indians. Now S.I.L. operates twelve planes, well worn but carefully maintained, ranging from a Piper Super Cub (one passenger) to a Catalina (19). Almost all were donated by individuals or religious groups...
...says. "I saw something flying, something thundering. I thought of flying, of a witch; then I realized it was a kind of bird." Afro depends on his memory to service him with poetic imagery, finds that not only themes but colors seep in from his surroundings (the grey-green of Serene Stone comes from Florentine tombstone; the red and blue of First Day from the 18th century walls of his last summer's studio). For him every painting is an attempt "to come into contact with the mystery"; success depends on the artist's power. Says Afro...
...animal relatives are a "type of highly modified plant life," according to Biologist Lawrence S. Dillon of Texas A. & M. By examining the internal structures of living cells. Dillon concludes that all life evolved from microscopic blue-green algae. From these algae developed two main branches of life. One became what is commonly called the plant kingdom, the other evolved into brown seaweed and eventually produced man and his fellow animals. Said Dillon: "We are forced to conclude that all life belongs to only one kingdom, which in all honesty must be recognized as the kingdom of plants...
...spot of the season is the "special," as TV now calls its "spectacular." The genre produced one sheer disaster-Mike Todd's go-minute commercial for Mike Todd on CBS-but its batting average has been lifted high with such hits as The Prince and the Pauper, The Green Pastures, Annie Get Your Gun and the NBC Opera production of Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites. Most of these were in color, but there was still no big breakthrough in sales to U.S. homes of color sets, which now number only...