Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assault, the Rangers captured a pair of deserters who reported that a strong Communist force numbering nearly 2,500 men had moved into the area and was preparing an attack. Though the Songbe garrison intensified its guard, it wasn't enough. In the dark beyond midnight, while the sky intermittently flared with lightning, the Reds attacked...
...casts them aside with savage contempt. He is always raving drunk and ravenously sex-hungry, at one point taking two sisters to bed at the same time. Between these bouts of insane carnality, he cheats, lies, steals, and spouts some embarrassingly inflated rhetoric at the sun, trees, sea and sky. The only being he seems to care for is a homosexual composer of Masses (James Earl Jones), and he ultimately murders...
...Educational television will guarantee that all the world's culture will be available to all the world. The receiving dishes pointing at the sky will be able to collect the most sophisticated technical information for the most backward countries...
Synchronous satellites, such as the Hughes men wanted to build, have much in their favor. Best of all, they seem to hang in one spot in the sky. But they also have two strikes against them before they take to space. They must be kept as light as possible because of the great rocket effort needed to place them on their high orbits, and in spite of their lightness, they must transmit a radio signal strong enough to be heard at that great distance. Perhaps more serious is the problem of keeping them on station above a selected point...
...brilliant, recalcitrant mind, trained at the Sorbonne and annealed during the French Resistance, cannot accept the shape of the postwar world. When Dienbienphu falls, she exults, although the fallen are Frenchmen. The U.S. is decadent and bent on war. Russia is interested only in world peace, and fills the sky with Sputniks in proof of its military superiority, which will keep the peace. Pope Pius XII dies, and Mile, de Beauvoir, who renounced God at 15, accepts the news "with a certain amount of pleasure...