Word: horizon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cambridge star-gazers are poorly placed for watching this closest approach to the sun, for it will occur shortly after midnight. Yet the comet is expected to be so spectacular and bright that some of its long tall may protrude above the horizon. Because of its orbital peculiarities, this glowing tall should appear in the west at midnight, swinging around to the north by 1:30 and over to the east in time to rise before...
Wallace reasons that the Republicans and Democrats may split the moderate vote and leave him as the conservatives' only champion. In fact the only cloud on Wallace's horizon is the prospect of stiff resistance on the gubernatorial succession issue from a small but determined minority in the state senate...
...miles (the sun's diameter is 900,000 miles). Owen J. Gingerich, lecturer on Astronomy, and Brian Marsden of the SAO expect the total brightness of the comet may then, rival that of the crescent moon, and its tail may extend more than half-way from the horizon to the zenith...
...truism is that the eye can lie, but the nose knows. Cool pools in the middle of the desert turn out to be heat vapor or over-the-horizon reflections. A bartender can suddenly split into identical twins. But drop a blindfolded man into the middle of a place that whiffs of tanned calfskin, saddle soap and cordovan polish. Is he in a shoe store? Not necessarily...
...tourists attracted to gaudy new hotels, casinos and roadhouses. Sewage is doing the same thing to upstate New York's Chautauqua Lake, the famous site of open-air lectures and summer artistry. In Appalachia, strip miners have ravaged the hills for ore and left behind a gutted horizon that, says one native, "makes my stomach turn." Thousands of acres of Atlantic coast marshland, home of waterfowl and spawning ground for oysters and clams, are being filled in by marina-minded resort builders...