Word: skies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...solemn men, women and children, arms laden with bundles, eyes filled with bewilderment and doubt. What they saw gave them no cause for rejoicing: a bleak wilderness surrounded by stern, snowcapped mountains, and in the wilderness a dismal tent city sprawling in the mud under a dour sky. This was the Matanuska Valley, 50 miles northeast of Anchorage, in south-central Alaska. This was the promised land-promised by the wide-eyed Federal Emergency Relief Administration to depression-ridden, red-blooded American families who wanted to leave home and make their way, in fine old American tradition, against the wilderness...
...white twin-engined Beechcraft taxied out to the runway at Phoenix's Sky Harbor airport, a ghostly shape in the pre-dawn greyness. "Beech 72 Bravo ready to go," reported Pilot Barry Morris Goldwater, the junior Senator from Arizona, to Phoenix Tower. He turned to one of his passengers. "This is the time of year I like," he said with a grin. It was campaign time, and Barry Goldwater, who had risen that morning at 4 and skipped breakfast, faced the bitterest fight of his short, happy political life...
...enormous dish antenna, over 400 ft. in diameter, can act as a beam transmitter and bounce powerful radio signals off the moon. When they return after 2.6 sec., they can be received with good freedom from jamming at any place on earth where the moon is in the sky; 2) there is also a worthwhile possibility that the great telescope, which concentrates radio waves as a big optical telescope concentrates light waves, will be able to pick up radio evidence reflected off the moon that somebody on earth has exploded a nuclear device or launched a powerful missile...
When the moon is not in the sky, the Navy's dish will be at the service of peacetime scientists. By bringing information from as much as 6 billion light years away, it may tell the size and age of the universe. It may tell whether the universe exploded from a center a few billion years ago, or whether it is still being created and continues indefinitely in all directions in both time and space...
Meanwhile, reports of one or more objects flashing across the sky late Thursday night were received at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory...