Word: skies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bright California morning last week, bomb-shaped General Curtis Emerson LeMay, boss of the Strategic Air Command, landed at March Air Force Base near Riverside, stepped off the ramp, glanced at his watch, then stared dourly at the calm, brilliant sky, and waited. Soon three big, eight-jet B-52 SAC bombers streaked into view in tight formation, peeled off and landed a minute apart, their huge brake parachutes billowing from their tails. Throttled down, the planes sedately taxied two miles to the base-operations building, their high-pitched, throbbing scream searing the air. Then, abruptly, the planes were silent...
Sobering afterthoughts were two other exhibitions staged by the Corcoran. In one salon were hung 24 past winners, ranging from little-known Willard L. Metcalf's moonlit May Night to John Hult-berg's Yellow Sky (TIME, May 2, 1955), and including Childe Hassam, George Bellows and Edward Hopper. Across the hall was a first-rate collection made up of nothing but onetime nonwinners: Albert Pinkham Ryder, Mary Cassatt, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, John Sloan, Marsden Hartley and John Marin. Said Corcoran Director Williams: "We know from the statistics of previous shows that only three or four...
...earnings of 6% on sales were not as favorable as Allied Chemical's profit of 8%, Du Font's 22%. But Faina's goal is as American as apple pie, though it may seem as unlikely in cartel-minded, low-wage Italy as pie in the sky. Says President Faina: "I want every workingman to have 100 shares of Montecatini, a home of his own, a car. a refrigerator and television in his living room. It can be done, and we're going...
...could photograph a tennis ball, half-lit by the sun, 1,000 miles away, or a V-2 rocket at the distance of the moon. It covered a 13° field, 26 times the apparent diameter of the full moon, and a complicated driving mechanism swung it across the sky, fast for nearby satellites, slower for satellites farther away. On its plates the stars showed as streaks. A satellite, if one had been found, would have shown as a dot or a short track...
...Year's guests began departing for trains to London, Paris, Rome and Vienna, Host Andrea Badrutt said goodbye in six languages, gave each a small bottle of cognac to ease the parting journey. As snow fell onto the white peaks, his mother looked fondly at the flake-filled sky, cried: "Ah, golden rain, golden rain...