Word: skies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Accordingly, the opportunity coming, like the sky to Chicken Little's head, we went to see Josh White. Quiet and stealthy as people late for church, we tapped at the door. At the command "Come," we pushed...
...Cape Canaveral Missile Test Center one morning last week. At count down's end, fire flashed at its base, and the monster slowly rose into the air, a pencil of orange flame lengthening behind it. Straight up it rocketed, gathering speed. Several miles up in the bright blue sky, it arched gracefully into a southeastward course, dwindled to a speck and then, 2¼ minutes after rising from its pad, disappeared out over the Atlantic, hurtling on toward a faraway watery target...
...ORDIR (omnirange digital radar) devised by Columbia University scientists (TIME, Aug. 19), the new warning system would allow perhaps 15 minutes for defenders to compute the oncoming missile's course and speed with electronic brains, and launch a missile to intercept it high up in the sky...
...most prized of African workers are the Zulus. Fiercest fighters in the African bush, they work mostly as houseboys for white city dwellers, and for years lived in rooms atop the apartment houses. In recent years, thanks to the government policy of clearing out their "locations in the sky," more and more Zulus have been forced into the suburbs. Confronted by the bullying Tsotsis, the Zulus stuck together, fought back in the trains, and often ambushed the Tsotsis themselves in the streets. The Zulus had a few gangsters of their own. Sometimes they made mistakes and attacked the wrong...
...Florida's Cape Canaveral boast each year of spotting more boat-tailed grackles, brown-headed nuthatches, yellow-shafted flickers and other species than any other group taking part in the National Audubon Society's Christmas bird count. Last week they were joined by an eager band of sky gazers bent on observing some of the most awesome birds of passage the world has seen. Lured to the Cape by advance tips that some of the promising missiles in the U.S. arsenal would be test-fired, 14 reporters and photographers stood a weeklong telescope watch over the launching sites...