Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cover. To the west, the other boat raked the seaside home of Castro's Puppet President Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, drawing erratic rifle fire from nearby guards. By the time the attackers turned for home, the confusion was such that antiaircraft guns were pumping shells into the sky as searchlights crisscrossed futilely for enemy planes...
...every hill battalioned trees March skyward on unmoving knees, And like a spider on a veil Climbs the moon. A nightingale, Lost in the trees against the sky, Loudly repeats its jewelled...
...into space. There would be no crowd to watch and applaud my landing (there was later). Nor was there any scientific objective to be gained. No, there was a deeper reason for wanting to jump, a desire I could not explain. It was a love of the air and sky, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men-where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane; where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same instant...
...flying. You always had to fly where they wanted. You sat there in this big plush seat with your earphones on, the radio chattering, and the engine noise drowning out almost everything." Now, in the lovely lake valley near Issaquah, Wash., Emrich operates an airport devoted exclusively to sky sports-flying, sailplaning, parachute jumping and ballooning. He is his own best customer, and was the first pilot to fly a sailplane across Mount Rainier. "I see so many people who are in ruts and aren't having fun," he says. "One of them is my own brother...
...bidder. He hates the white man for what he has done to the Indian, and he enters the jungle to rejoin the living tradition of his race. As he slowly descends upon them, haloed in a parachute, the Niaruna fall on their knees and worship him as Kisu, the sky...