Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Talara refinery with Mexican assistance, and is ripping down Esso gas-station signs in favor of its own brand name Petroperu. Nor does the Nixon Administration quibble with the reimbursement-at $71 million-that Peru is willing to pay. But the U.S. firmly opposes the blue-sky figure of $690 million that Velasco insists is owed Peru for 44 years of oil theft, and against which he is determined to apply whatever reimbursement IPC is finally allowed. Says Lawyer John N. Irwin, who has been representing the U.S. in negotiations on the impasse: "The declaration of such debts after...
...itself "electronic invisibility." There is even a top-secret method of masking the SR-71's heat emissions to confuse enemy infrared tracking. Put together in one package, the sophisticated gadgetry makes the Blackbird all but invulnerable-the next best thing to a manned, orbiting spy in the sky...
...brighten the statuesque "Zig" (for Ziggurat) series of tilting or semicircular sheets of steel. Nature itself is meant to tint the burnished-steel "Cubi" series. "I polish them," Smith explained, "so that on a dull day they take on a dull blue or the yellow glow of an afternoon sky...
Married. A. B. Guthrie Jr., 68, author of The Big Sky and the 1950 Pulitzer prizewinner The Way West; and Carol B. Luthin, 38, whom he met in Montana three years ago; both for the second time; in Helena, Mont...
...Friday late in March, a few days after Eric's experience in the cabin, the mist in New Hampshire was thick. So thick that its whiteness made it impossible to distinguish the snow-covered ground from the sky. Towering black trees, everything, disappeared into the haze...