Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...river, and when she caught her first glimpse of the peaks, Lady Bird cried: "Look, y'all, just look!" Idling along at 7 m.p.h., she spotted a formation of Canadian geese. "Hey! Say, what are they?" she exclaimed. "Aren't they gorgeous, strung out across the sky?" Then she dipped a paper cup in the water, drained it, and took out a little notebook to jot down some notes for her diary...
...groups, with about 80 men, calling themselves the "Haitian Revolutionary Armed Forces" and another independent band of 100. Since the first skirmishes eight weeks ago, the rebels have killed at least 80 Duvalier militiamen, have shot one of Duvalier's three AT6 patrol planes out of the sky, and have blown up roads, bridges and trucks. One night, they reportedly raided and looted an armory 38 miles southeast of Port-au-Prince, then two days later sacked another military post 20 miles away. Haitians crossing over into the neighboring Dominican Republic say that the rebels effectively control half...
Hanging on a Yo-Yo. Points are awarded in parachuting for style jumps, in which sky divers execute a prescribed series of spins, somersaults, twists and turns during a 120-m.p.h. free fall lasting 25 to 32 sec. But the biggest emphasis is on accuracy jumps, trying to zero in on a target from 1,000 meters and 1,500 meters. Down comes the jumper at a speed of 20 ft. per sec., twisting and turning, pulling on the control lines as he tries to maneuver the chute through the wind to the bull's-eye. In 1962, using...
...dateness was not in question for a moment with the crowd of 30,000 who assembled in the cathedral (and wine) town of Orvieto, 75 miles north of Rome. The day after the encyclical was issued, the 66-year-old Paul dropped nonchalantly out of the sky for a visit-the first Pope ever to ride in a helicopter (or as Pope John called it, a helicopterum...
...just that they can find a studio here." Painter Lucia Wilcox, who used to turn fish thrown away by local fishermen into bouillabaisse for Max Ernst, Jean Hélion and Fernand Léger when they were war refugees in the Hamptons, says, "I am crazy about the sky. It's like Paris." City Landscapist Jane Wilson likes the change. Moreover, Art lives comfortably with Wealth. Adolph Gottlieb is a neighbor to one of the U.S.'s richest in-surancemen. He reports that "if you say to a cocktail party of brokers out here...