Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hanoi. The SAM sites describe a nearly complete circle around the capital, and may well be manned by Soviet technicians. The birds themselves-perhaps six to a site-are the same that brought down an American U-2 over Cuba in 1962. They can pluck a plane from the sky at an altitude of 80,000 ft. and fully 35 miles away, riding a radar beam en route and destroying the aircraft with a proximity-fused high explosive or even a nuclear blast. Even after the rockets are mounted, U.S. pilots could take them out by sneaking in beneath...
...first is a blue sky with a few fair-weather clouds and a couple of trees. We hear John Duffy's music for brass, xylophone, tambourine and harp--and it sounds somewhat Spanish, curiously. A big wagon rolls into sight and disgorges an itinerant acting troupe, which takes bows before the audience. This could make sense, but Anthony has done away entirely with the Induction scenes, in which Shakespeare makes clear that Shrew is an entertainment within an entertainment...
...Greek architecture," says Napoli, "reflects their airy feelings, their groping for space, for sky and sun. The arch simply didn't suit their tastes." But in southern Italy, he reasons, good marble is scarce, and the Greek settlers were forced to rely more upon arches than they had in the past. Napoli now speculates that the Etruscans, who are credited with teaching the Romans about arches, learned arch making from early Greek traders...
...miles east of Jacksonville, is a resort that combines private houses and a resort hotel. The houses are in the $40,000-$150,000 price range and include a cubistic concrete and glass extravaganza designed by Paul Rudolph. Many of them have interior-court swimming pools, open to the sky but screened against flying insects. Aside from a Robert Trent Jonesdesigned golf course, featuring a famed 9th hole where the player must drive the ball across 100 ft. of water to a green surrounded by five sand traps, Ponte Vedra has its own 10,000-acre hunting preserve, stocked with...
...with apathy. Men gathered in cafés to sip thick coffee and mint tea; stores and shops opened for business as usual. By afternoon, soldiers with submachine guns had turned back to the city's police the job of directing traffic, and Algiers dozed beneath a cloudless sky and enervating heat...