Word: redness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lunar Landscapes. Soustelle's empire is only a part of the world's largest desert; by usual geographers' reckoning, the Sahara runs from the Atlas Mountains south to the Niger and from Africa's Atlantic Coast east to the Red Sea. But even the French Community's half of the Sahara is awesome in size (1,600,000 sq. mi. v. 213,000 for France) and bewildering in its diversity. Barely a seventh of it is the movie desert of The Sheik-the vast expanses of sand wind-blown into golden dunes. The rest...
SHOULDER-FIRED MISSILE, to be named Red-Eye, will be developed for Army and Marines by General Dynamics Corp.'s Gonvair division under $6,000,000 contract. New surface-to-air weapon looks like World War II bazooka, is electronically guided for use against low-flying planes...
...system consists of two soundproof and weatherproof corridors, red-carpeted and glass-enclosed, which extend from the terminal at plane-door level on a high, fixed base. First-class passengers enter a short jetwalk that leads to the plane's front door via a short gondola that slides to the door on a monorail. Other passengers walk a longer distance along a jet-walk that runs parallel to the plane, enter the rear door through a telescoping corridor that can be moved out to the door on wheels. Both devices are operated electrically from a console that can raise...
...book, a document he knows wearily and well after what seems a life-time-and-a-half as a professional sergeant in the regular U.S. Army. At 38. he holds his first commission in the 10th Cavalry* without pride. He maintains that he is color-blind-to black, red and white. But two fierce military actions teach him differently. A forced march through the badlands ends in heroics and madness, stewed rattlesnake and deep swallows of horses' blood. Finally, after many a deadly duel in the sun. comes a love feast among the minorities, which lifts this dryly authentic...
Skowhegan, Me., Lake wood Theater: Gloria Swanson and Buddy Rogers in Red Letter Day, dramatic comedy by Andrew Rosenthal...