Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sets of panelists each occupied half of Thursday's Brattle Street Forum, discussing pastimes comprehended by the title "Sports of Sea and Sky...
Jacques Istel, president of the committee of the Sixth world championship of sport parachuting, currently being held in Orange, led the discussion of sky-diving. Isten was the man who introduced the sport to the U.S. in the fifties...
Black, Black Sky. Exactly 23 hours and 32 minutes after Nikolaev's blastoff, just as he was breaking Titov's record by completing his 18th orbit, Moscow announced triumphantly that a second cosmonaut, Ukrainian-born Lt. Col. Pavel Romanovich Popovich, 31, had been hurled into space in a capsule called Vostok IV. Within an hour, the two space craft had established radio contact with each other, and Nikolaev reported to control headquarters that he was watching Vostok IV through his porthole. Plotting the radio signals, scientists outside Russia estimated that the two space craft were 74.5 miles apart...
...watch the earth in the clouds," said Popovich. "To the right, in the illuminator [porthole], I see the black, black sky. My spirits are wonderful. Everything goes excellently...
Deep in South Viet Nam's highland forests live more than 500,000 primitive natives whom the French called montagnards-people of the mountains. The aboriginal montagnards hunt with crossbows and poisoned arrows, practice animal sacrifice to the spirits of the sky and water; montagnard women go barebreasted, and men wear only loincloths. Though they inhabit more than half the land of South Viet Nam, the montagnards consider the Vietnamese to be carpetbaggers who came into the hills only to exploit them and steal their land. Taking advantage of this loathing, Communist Viet Cong guerrilla cadres from the north...