Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then the sky fell in. Thousands Cambridge as a cold front slammed of raindrops splattered down on in from the North leaving a quarter of an inch of water in its wake...
...pilots of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are learning how to land the big jets closer to town. At Wallops Island, Va., they bring their Boeing 707 slanting out of the sky at a limping 100 m.p.h.-50 m.p.h. slower than a standard jetliner. They float over the end of the runway and touch down at only 90 m.p.h.-as slow as an old-fashioned propeller-driven...
...Cuba's armed forces: "We must be alert. We must be implacable." Castro canceled all military leaves and placed his armed forces on full alert. Havana University was drained as students were called to arms in militia units. Night after night, radar antennas scanned the sea and sky for any suspicious movement, while patrol boats and shore patrols filled in the radar gaps. So busy were MIG fighters that one jet narrowly missed ramming into a Cuban airliner over eastern Oriente province. Castro's internal radio even issued a call for volunteer blood donors in preparation...
...kind of community springing up in the U.S. where the village green is an air strip, the streets are at least 80 ft. wide, and the street signs are only two feet high so that the planes' wings can clear them. The Bevilles' "town" is called Sierra Sky Park-130 acres of housing development in the San Joaquin Valley seven miles north of Fresno that is the hope and faith of a onetime flight instructor and sometime real estate salesman named William V. Smilie...
Purchase of a lot ($4,200-$12,650) carries with it runway privileges for two airplanes. Smilie has also staked out space for a shopping center and a motel. Residents of Sierra Sky Park think nothing of going to lunch with friends 300 miles away. In fact, they tend to cultivate far-flung friendships-it gives them an excuse...