Word: skies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russians are now willing to let Americans fly over most of Siberia to see what's going on-in exchange for our letting the Russians overfly all the U.S. west of the Mississippi. This is the Soviets' reply to Eisenhower's open-skies plan. Whether to regard it as outrageous (the Pentagon view), grounds for guarded optimism (the State Department view), or simply a Russian attempt to resume the international conversation that Budapest interrupted, is assessed in FOREIGN NEWS, Pieces of the Sky...
...Champs Elysées, and the terrace cafés spread their chairs and tables out across the sidewalks again. Lovers exchanged lilies of the valley, and concierges, in good humor after the winter hibernation, restored their bird cages to outside window ledges. But beneath the soft blue sky, Paris was in torment; the war in Algeria was now like the Indo-China war at its worst. But unlike Indo-China in the days of Dienbienphu, no end, whether in defeat or victory, was within sight in Algeria...
...named the Vertijet. is a small, delta-winged job that takes off from a suspended position, hanging from a framework like a bat. Last week Test Pilot Peter F. Girard, sitting on his back with his face to the sky. started its powerful jet engines. As the roaring exhaust hit the pavement below, a spray of dirt and melted tar boiled into the air. When the X-13 became airborne, Pilot Girard maneuvered it off its suspension rig and free of the framework. Then he flew it upward like a deliberate rocket and made a gradual pushover to normal level...
Astronomers all over the world were readying their telescopes this week for Comet Arend-Roland. which is about to make an appearance from behind the glare of the sun. This week it should become visible just after sunset, low in the northwest. It will soon climb higher in the sky, but since it will be moving away from the sun, it will gradually lose brilliance, become invisible to the naked eye about June...
...rides his loud October sky...