Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...communications cable laid beneath the Mediterranean at a cost to the U.S. of $1,000,000 had yet to transmit a single syllable; studies are now under way on how to utilize it. Another time, Mansfield's office noticed that 151 Jeeps destined for Thailand were being repainted green, though their original blue coat was in perfectly good condition, halted the paint job, and saved $12,000. In all, Secretary of State Dean Rusk told...
...Green-Pea Run. Manufacturers, of course, are as delighted as the Pentagon with the improving technology of military helicopters. This year Fairchild-Hiller, Bell and Hughes will bring out utility and executive models based on military designs. Sikorsky sees a big civilian market for its Skycranes, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development has just put up $490,000 to test whether the Crane can fly a buslike pod of 40 passengers between airports and downtown-at costs competitive with ground travel...
...then there is always the potential customer like Miss Alice Wiesendanger, 64, who regularly pilots her Hughes 300 from her home at Saratoga, near San Francisco, to her topaz and tourmaline mine 450 miles south, near San Diego. A food fancier, Miss Wiesendanger yens for the fresh green peas to be found around Half Moon Bay, 30 miles from her home. But she hops over to her favorite vegetable stand-and returns with the peas in less time than it takes to shell them...
...fantasies of evasion, and these fantasies were the sole subject of her stories. The House Without Windows, for example, describes a child who "ran away from loneliness and lived wild in the great meadow." While she was working on the book, Barbara wrote to a friend: "I want that green, fairylike, woodsy, animal-filled, watery, luxuriant, butterfly-painted, moth-dotted, dragonfly-blotched, bird-filled, salamandrous, mossy, ferny, sunshiny, moonshiny, long-dayful, short-nightful land, on that fishy, froggy, tad-poley, shelly, lizard-filled lake-oh, no end of lovely things to say about that place...
...walked out of her Boston apartment with thirty dollars in her pocket and was never seen again. Is she dead? Is she living somewhere under a false identity? Or was she, like the heroine of The House Without Windows, lifted up by a great flock of green and gold and purple butterflies and borne into oblivion...