Word: skies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your correspondents [Oct. 1] says Estes will campaign with the call, "Pie in the sky with Adlai and I." I distinctly remember Ike's thanking all who had been so kind "to Mamie and I," but I have yet to hear Estes use bad grammar...
...tests before he was allowed to cut in the rockets. So at 30,000 feet over Edwards one day last week, Test Pilot Apt was dropped in the X-2 from the belly of a B50 bomber. Smoothly, he touched off the rocket engines and roared up into the sky. Two minutes later, he was in trouble; the X-2 hurtled to earth 20 miles to the northeast. Apt was found dead in the mangled wreckage, his body still in the cockpit...
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...important flyway of migratory birds, says the Audubon Society, passes over Manhattan Island, and the birds have been having increasing trouble with man-made mountains poking their tops into their right of way. Birds generally fly at night, and when the sky is clear, they keep well above New York's highest buildings. But a low ceiling of turbulent clouds often forces them down to levels where they may tangle fatally with glass and brick and steel. Powerful lights on the tops of buildings seem to attract and confuse the birds. Sometimes the sidewalks around the Empire State have...
...usual clipped, staccato style was properly subdued-especially when, at the end, he tried to work out a salvation for his hero: "Where do you go when you die? The book says, 'In my father's house there are many mansions.' Where? In the sky, under the ground, or in the minds...