Word: skies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME's first Man of the Year, young Charles Lindbergh, soloed across the Atlantic sky and opened the Air Age. Lindbergh's profile was followed by a gallery of men and women who somehow shaped the news for better or worse. Included were Franklin Roosevelt, Walter P. Chrysler, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and General Eisenhower...
Jupiter, which had been fired successfully at least once before and failed on two other occasions, this time was only a qualified success. In a burst of fire at night that lit the missile like a futuristic firework, Jupiter swept into the sky in a first-class launching. But, said the Defense Department, it "failed to complete its full flight because of technical difficulties." Thor, on the other hand, was eminently successful. For the first time, the Air Force fired its IRBM complete: nose cone, full guidance gear-and ballast in the nose to simulate the weight of its warhead...
Beneath the lights of the Columbine as it sped through the night sky, U.S. Navy and Coast Guard ships were joined with the Royal Navy in a patrol line across choppy North Atlantic seas. From Her Majesty's frigate Undaunted, which was with General Dwight Eisenhower at the Normandy beachhead in 1944, came a message out of the night: "Glad to have you with us-Undaunted we remain." For nearly 16 hours the Columbine flew at 13,000 feet or less so that the cabin pressure could be kept at sea level as a health precaution. President Dwight Eisenhower...
...where'er I will I hear a sky-born music still...
...calm and cloistered air of 19th century New England, the Sage of Concord tuned his inner ear to the faint, sweet sounds that issued from his Transcendental trees and rocks. If he could hear sky-born music wherever he went, his friends and neighbors were less fortunate; they had to depend on the uncertain efforts of a handful of local groups, supplemented by occasional trips to Boston. In null century Concord, New Englanders do not find themselves so hampered-and Emerson would scarcely be left in peace to do his ethereal listening. Today's American, let him go where...