Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trash as well as its panache -Republican John Lindsay has been trying to clean up his city since he took on the mayoralty just a year ago. The results are certainly not all that he hoped, nor all that the city expected. But the effort is quite a sight...
...special committee was preparing to study the demands, young Communist students staged two days of mild downtown demonstrations. Then full-scale street riots suddenly erupted on Dec. 3. Chanting "Kill the Portuguese devils!", some 3,000 Red Guard-style demonstrators smashed store windows, tipped over every car in sight, pulled down statues, and sacked Macao's City Hall. The next day-early last week-5,000 took to the streets, and before order was restored eight were dead. At week's end De Carvalho had accepted the five demands and Macao was calm again, though the nervousness...
Secularization - the historical process by which man increasingly controls the universe, thereby seeming to diminish God's dominion - sounds by definition like a threat to Christianity; in fact, it is a divine gift to man that has its roots in Biblical revelation. Such is the in sight of one of the century's greatest and least known Protestant thinkers...
Bikinis Ho. The jet rush is on, and no letup is in sight. The number of passengers through Honolulu airport has more than doubled in six years, and airline executives foresee an even greater escalation after the 490-passenger "Jumbo" Boeing jets start to fly in 1969. Some visitors flying tourist class pay only $100 for the five-hour flight from...
Puzzled farmers of the plateau country between Paris and Chartres have been scratching their heads and stroking their whiskers at the sight of a 170-m.p.h. vehicle that flies without wings astride a single concrete rail. The streamlined craft that keeps the grands-pères guessing is a half-scale experimental model of France's wheelless, one-car "aerotrain." After a year of tests, the French government just gave the go-ahead for construction of a full-sized model that will whisk 84 passengers down a 16-mile test run at speeds of up to 250 m.p.h...