Word: skies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whirling satellites before the eyes, by alternating periods of deepest gloom and wildest premonitions of impending doom, and by the steadfast conviction that the U.S., helplessly and hopelessly, is falling behind the U.S.S.R. in military technology. Since last Oct. 4, when Russia's Sputnik I spun into the sky, the syndrome has afflicted many who should know better. Proclaimed Columnist Joseph Alsop three weeks ago: "It is now the Eisenhower Administration's policy to permit the Kremlin to gain an overwhelming superiority of nuclear striking power in the next five years." Wrote retired Army Lieut. General James...
...Thach, now in command of Fighting 3, sailed out across the Pacific aboard the Saratoga. The carrier took a torpedo before the airmen ever got into a fight. Switching to the Lexington, Thach got his chance in combat off the Gilbert Islands. He and his squadron climbed into the sky, knocked down 19 out of 20 Japanese planes; Thach himself got three, and then-Lieut. Edward ("Butch") O'Hare, whose performance that day won him the Congressional Medal of Honor, killed five, damaged a sixth within six minutes. Used exclusively was the now famous "Thach weave...
...medical news published for Upjohn Co.), "after some years of practice your mind is inevitably influenced. Soon every day's activities are considered from your own point of view, and even on holidays you can't stay away from routine obsessions. The meteorologist will keep searching the sky, and the geologist the earth. And it is the same for the physician." So Ungerer, who takes in vacation vistas with an artist's eye for perspective, drew some impressions (see cuts) of physicians who cannot quite get away from it all, even when they try to relax...
...blooded rat turns true blue; he bellylands his plane, heaps Philips over his shoulder and reels (about 25) back to their own lines. There Philips' repentant wife waves disconsolate farewell to Mitchum, but he does not even notice. He is staring at those vapor trails in the sky...
Producer-Director Dick Powell wisely spends a minimum amount of time munching on this knackwurst, trains his cameras as much as possible on the stirring capers of F-86s banging about the sky. He would have been even smarter to hire some tanker planes and never bring the jets down...