Word: skies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forbidden Planet. A spring cruise at the speed of light to Altair-4-a small, out-of-the-way planet with two moons, green sky, pink sand, personal robot service (TIME, April...
...Angeles, Actor George Reeves, better known to millions of televiewing kiddies as Superman ("Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings at a single bound! Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Superman!!"), slapped a half-million-dollar suit on the O'Sullivan Building Materials Co. Reason : Superman Reeves, immovably safety-belted in his sports car, was irresistibly moved by an O'Sullivan truck last March, now claims he banged up his left side and arm so badly that...
...Vision deals with the apocalyptic explosion of a superbomb. Its ghostly passage across the sky startles the animal world. A leopard releases a captured doe, and both cower deep in the underbrush. In the city, men, women and children sleep, while their "leaders and wise men" anxiously scan the heavens, "but it was too late." There is a shudder of light and, in all the raised faces, eyes melt in their sockets...
Oats for the Mind. Lawyer Douglas found, like others before him, that the materialistic paradise of the workers is still pretty much a promise of pie in the dialectical sky. A haircut, he reports appreciatively, costs only 40?-but in 1955 the average Russian male got exactly five razor blades. A Russian family eats meat no more than once a week. A worker can buy a refrigerator for $165, but his annual income is about $600. Six families sometimes share a kitchen and a toilet...
...Forbidden Planet. A spring cruise at the speed of light to Altair-4-a small, out-of-the-way planet with two moons, green sky, pink sand. (TIME, April...