Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aware of these facts, some U.S. cities have not done too badly by their airports. Boston's Logan International Airport has the longest main runway (10,022 ft.) of any commercial field in the U.S., no tall buildings on the horizon, well-compacted runways that can withstand almost any amount of pounding. It has a new approach lighting system for safe, sure landings in bad weather, and a big, decentralized terminal that minimizes the passengers' ground time, which many experts say may be 25% of all air-travel time in the jet age. The Massachusetts legislature has also...
After a short wait they spotted the rocket arcing over the horizon at 6:09 a.m., and hailed it with hearty shouts of "Skoal" accompanied by numerous toasts. After the object had disappeared, the tutors returned to calculate the results of their observations. Some of the party, however, were unable to compute with any exactness...
...pell-mell of images from all angles into a control room where split-second decisions distilled the chaos into the crisp, orderly telecasts that brought the World Series to baseball's biggest audience-some 40 million all over the U.S., Canada and, for the first time, "over the horizon" to beisbol-slappy Cuba...
Only the prospect of Governor Orval E. Faubus' calling a special session of the state legislature appeared as a dark cloud on the horizon. Faubus said today that the session is "very likely," and he has called a news conference at 9 a.m. tomorrow which may end speculation as to whether the assembly will meet and what it will attempt...
...Graff has drawn up another impressive roster: Dorothy Parker, Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe, Edith Hamilton, Jimmy Hoffa, Noel Coward, Jack Kennedy, Ethel Merman, Kukla, Fran and Ollie. He and Agronsky also plan to fly to Havana to interview Dictator Batista via the nation's first "over-the-horizon" TV transmission system, which opened last week. "In every case," says Graff, "we are looking for the real essence of the man. We're trying to show, rather than show up, character...