Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rarity; Atlases, even without warheads, cost nearly a million dollars apiece and are not to be treated casually. Yet in an age when an intercontinental thermonuclear strike order could be received at any moment, a key warrior breed will be the missileer, whose fighting environment, neither sea nor sky nor foxhole, will be a concrete blockhouse or an underground fortress. His ties to the world outside will be electric wires. TV screens, knobs, dials, microphones, buttons and bulbs. He will be the man who presses the button...
...expansive as anyone under the big sky, Vice President Lyndon Johnson forever tells people, "Come and see us, heah?" No less a Texan, Lady Bird Johnson, 49, wound up a talk to lady journalists at a Theta Sigma Phi convention in San Antonio by asking them all over for breakfast. When 50 accepted. Lady Bird, a Theta Sig since her days as a University of Texas journalism student in 1933 chartered a bus for the 78-mile drive to the L.B.J. ranch, laid on a brunch of deer sausages, grits, and homemade peach preserves, sent the newshens away clucking...
...Sky Above-The Mud Below...
...mangrove stood out black against Key Largo's garish blue sky," the novel begins, and the readers can almost see the ghost of Humphrey Bogart standing under it, whistling for Lauren Bacall. Josee goes off with a Chris-Craft skipper named Ricardo, then presents her husband with a cake bearing a single burning candle-"to celebrate the first time I've been unfaithful to you." They separate in New York, after roaming Harlem until dawn and finishing off the adventure in "a small, deserted bar on Broadway"-a foreign fictional figment which, as every bag-eyed nightclubber knows...
Stowaway in the Sky dangles a grandfather and a grandson from an orange balloon, and wanders, lazy as a cloud, over the fair land of France. Filmed from a helicopter in exquisite mutations of color, Stowaway is a treat for the eye and a tonic to the spirit...