Word: skies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nonsense was precisely the word for much that has been going on in the inner circles of the Cuban government. But the reason for much of it was Castro himself. Never one to stay hitched, he failed to back his Cabinet while making pie-in-the-sky promises to all supplicants...
...Among them: Dominion Explorers Ltd., Round Valley Oil Co. Ltd., W. R. Newman (Joseph H. Hirshhorn interests), Texaco Exploration Co., California Standard Co., Talent Oil Co., David Rosen (Sun Oil Co.), Sky Chief Explorations, George Radisics, Charter...
David Landon's three poems, all partaking of the dominant love motif, are slightly more complex. The best, "Quattrocento," is cleverly constructed and involves some striking visual imagery. "Beneath a Sky" is not as well developed as the others: its images are forced, its phrases turgid, and the adjective "fishy-stinking" is enough to make any reader stop right there...
...jets had scrambled into the sky for a look at an intruder inside Russia's southern border. It was, in fact, an unarmed, four-engined U.S. Air Force C-130 transport carrying 17 men. In flying a course from Trabzon to Van, Turkey in high winds and bad weather, the C-130 had strayed over the Turkish "fence" into Communist territory, possibly confused by high-strength directional signals from Soviet radio stations. Following the vectors from their own ground radar stations, the Russians sped toward the target area, barking pilots' combat chatter over the radio. The monitors caught...
Bold Venture, which was a radio vehicle for the late Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, is a carefully glued blend of sex and speed. Where Highway Patrol's Broderick Crawford roars about in a squad car and Whirlybirds' Ken Toby and Craig Hill soar through the sky in a helicopter, Actor Dane Clark as Shannon plows through the waves in a 62-ft. sloop. Dockside waits his nubile ward, played by Joan Marshall, whom Writer David Friedkin describes as a "lovely, whimsical, gay, arrant broad in love with a virile guy-only he doesn't want...