Word: skies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From maps of the sky, with sky coordinates, the students proceed as the ancients did to mapping the earth, and they learn how a spherical surface is translated onto a flat piece of oak tag. Large wall maps are one tangible result of this project, maps accurate to a degree that would please even Frederick Merk...
...Algiers 100,000 Gaullists poured into the streets to celebrate their triumph over Paris. There were searchlights making giant Vs for victory, flares shooting into the sky and bands playing. In the excitement, one man died of a heart attack, 40 fainted or were trampled under foot, and 100 children got lost. From the balcony of the Government General Building came incessant loudspeaker exhortations: "Let the torches through, please. . . . That's it . . . Bravo les torches...
...toasted ants it is always a seller's market in Colombia. A favorite cocktail delicacy, and popularly reputed to give their eaters courage, they are so highly regarded that Colombians call them the "caviar of Santander." The only thing they dislike about the ants this season is the sky-high price of ten pesos ($1.34) per lb. (about 150 ants...
Commencement Week 1958 began yesterday with an overcast sky and a swarm of red-and-white-hatted men and women of varying ages, all viewing a Harvard far different from the Harvard they knew 25, 30, 50 and more years...
...began a familiar process in which it removed a warhead, took off the old trigger and its brackets, replaced them with a new trigger and brackets. Somewhere in that process on the fourth missile there was a mishap. Suddenly the missile blew with a roar and a sky-searing pillow of orange flame from burning kerosene and nitric acid fuels. After the eight missiles had gone up, quick-thinking Lieut. Robert F. Daly, the battery commander, dashed out of his office, ordered the remaining Nikes dropped by elevator to their 20-ft deep concrete storage pits...