Word: skies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet Union and the United States have been giving chief consideration at the London disarmament talks to proposals which would limit nuclear testing, establish quotas on conventional armament and begin "open-sky" aerial inspection. So far the United States has presented no official plan for establishing a central European buffer zone...
...Approximately Equal." The U.S. gave the Russians the opening for their move earlier this year by intimating that it would settle for one piece of sky at a time. Harold E. Stassen, the President's Disarmament Adviser, informally suggested to Russia's representative, Valerian Zorin, that the powers might begin by trying out aerial inspection in 1) a patch of Europe between Amsterdam and Leningrad, and 2) a North Pacific zone including most of Alaska and a small piece of Siberia. Last week Zorin formally proposed a larger European area, centered farther west so as to include southeast...
...Good Knight Amadis de Gaule (whose exploits took him from Britain to Constantinople) as he strides, plumes tossing, to greet the Princess Olga, after he and his companions have forced the castle of treacherous Galpen. Banners wave, steel clashes on steel, the air is loud with clamor, even the sky is turbulent...
Reach for the Sky. (J. Arthur Rank). "Damn!" thought R.A.F. Cadet Douglas Bader (rhymes with ah'd her) as he lay in the smoking wreckage of his tiny biplane and inspected his shattered leg. "I won't be able to play rugger on Saturday." Cadet Bader was right. By Saturday both his legs were off. "Sssh!" he heard a nurse say. "There's a boy dying in there." The sick man stiffened. "Dying! We'll see," he thought grimly, and began to fight for his life...
Reach for the Sky, the most popular picture (gross: over $1,500,000) shown in England during 1956, is based on Paul Brickhill's lively biography (TIME, Aug. 2, 1954), and has Kenneth More-the bachelor in Genevieve-in the title role. Actor More, who is probably the world's ablest portrayer of damn-the-torpedoes extraversion, gives a cracking good imitation of a fighting nature that thrived in adversity. Yet the show, more or less, is More-or less. The script suffers from a kind of paraplegia of the narrative instinct, and the fly-stuff never gets...