Word: planes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...telescope cameras have sent back nearly 5000 ultraviolet pictures, primarily photographing the stars lying in the plane of the Milky Way. A satellite was necessary to obtain these pictures because the earth's atmosphere blocks most types of ultra-violet light and makes ground observations in ultra-violet wave-lengths impossible...
...this week? According to Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson, the prize goes to the International Boundary Commission, which is now in the process of defoliating a 20-ft.-wide strip between the U.S. and Canada. The main purpose, says the commission, is to help establish jurisdiction in border disputes and plane crashes. Excluding water, the strip will extend over 2,964 miles of land...
Died. Sonja Henie, 57, Norwegian-born queen of the ice revues in the 1930s and '40s; of leukemia; in an ambulance plane between Paris and Oslo. The chubby, bedimpled daughter of a prosperous Oslo fur wholesaler, Sonja captured Norway's figure skating championship by the time she was ten. In 1927 she won the first of her ten consecutive world titles and the following year earned the first of three successive Olympic crowns. As astute in business as she was graceful on skates, she turned professional in 1936, made eleven movies (One in a Million, Thin...
...Hollywood film is complete these days without the "promo bit"-cross-country tours by the stars to plug the movie in the press and on TV. Lee Marvin has gone that route enough times to have pained memories: "Blah, blah, blah. Get stiff. Grab a shower. Take a plane. Blah, blah, blah. Get stiff...
...plane to New York the next day, Marvin said: "There's an old adage in the business: Never shack up with anyone with lower billing than you. Now here I am, running out of shackups. But you know, when you reach 45 and are making enough money to retire, you still have to keep making the flicks. Yeah, you keep working at the masculinity thing, reconfirming it, always asking yourself, 'Hey, Jesus, am I losing...