Word: skies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...town of Rodez in Southern France, at 14 decided to become a painter. His first loves were the Druid monuments in the region and the massive Romanesque architecture of the church at Conques. Says Soulages: "I detest the Renaissance." During his teens, Soulages delighted in sketching trees against the sky, boned up to pass the academic exams for Paris' Ecole des Beaux-Arts. But once entered, he was convinced by exhibitions of Cezanne and Picasso that academicism was not for him, went home to work on his own. Within a year, tall (6 ft. 3 in.) Artist Soulages...
Through the Roof. The huge State Fair Music Hall (capacity: 4,100) was almost a quarter empty when La Callas appeared, shimmering and glowing in a Venetian-gold gown with diamonds glittering at her ears. Behind her was a black-bordered set with a sky-blue backdrop, creating the effect of an immense shadow box. Callas had committed herself to a murderously difficult concert of eight operatic arias. All week she had kept trying to cut the number down to three, but Impresario Kelly held firm, and eight it was. She opened with a Mozart aria from The Abduction from...
When the rocket re-enters the atmosphere it could travel about 1000 miles before landing, leaving a blazing trail if it falls at night. If it re-enters in the daytime, it could leave a dark trail in the sky as it gives off particles and vapor...
Whipple reported that the observatory will notify all Moon watch teams and the Armed Forces to be on the alert over the weekend, even during hours when the rocket might not be visible in the sky...
...observatory would welcome any chance of examining any parts of the rocket, the astronomer concluded, and would welcome all sightings on objects in the sky, even if they are real meteors...