Word: skies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...balloon rose rapidly, glinting in the sun. At 56,400 ft., Commander Lewis reported that he and Commander Ross were having coffee, a prime necessity of Navy men. Somewhat later he remarked that the sky was clear and dark blue-black. The balloon continued to climb. In two hours and 50 minutes it passed the Army's altitude record (72,395 ft.) and reached...
...continuing interest in astronomy he explains as "the satisfying your curiosity, the wanting to know," and at Canberra he will again be seeking knowledge in "the most interesting parts of the sky," for some of the more complex aspects of the Milky Way are only visible in that hemisphere. Much of the thrust of his earlier work had been on the galactic structure and dynamics of the southern Milky...
Their limit is the sky...
...rest of the expensive production is done competently. Oliver Smith's sets are remarkable. They aren't set up behind a curtain; they drop from the sky! Irene Sharaff's costumes are lavish. Hangings occur right on stage. So does a shark, a wonderful bear (Charles Morrell), and an earthquake. This is engineered by director Tyrone Guthrie whose crowd scenes are especially smoothly run. If technical competence were all that mattered, the play would be a success...
...days," Braque explains, "I used guitars, tables, carafes, sand and wallpaper to express what I had to say. Now it is the bird which helps me to explain myself." With a smile he adds, "I started on the ground, and now I am slowly moving up toward the sky...