Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Commission has approved a controversial design for a monument to the author of the New Deal: a set of sky-stabbing concrete slabs to be erected in West Potomac Park. The memorial has been variously described as "the epitome of mid-20th century art" by Architect Philip C. Johnson and as "instant Stonehenge" by the critical Washington Post and Times Herald. The Post last week suggested that one of the slabs carry an epitaph to the shortlived National Recovery Administration (1933-35): "Here lies beneath this pillar grey/The late-lamented NRA/It lived and breathed...
...Force radar operator at Goose Bay, Labrador, last week was watching bright blips drifting across his radarscope as he traced the track of airplanes approaching from Europe. The planes seemed to be scattered all over the sky, sometimes as far as 150 miles off course. Only when the planes came within reach of land radio guidance did the blips slant crabwise back to their proper courses...
...number 1,500,000 in the U.S., 1,800,000 in the world. Last week New York State's Mormons announced that they would build a new headquarters: a 30-to 40-story sky scraper on 58th Street in Manhattan. It will have a chapel, an information center, an auditorium, and office space to lease to businesses. * A nephew of American Motors President George Romney, who also has a son, Scott, 20, serving in Britain...
...This is a time of crisis," King Chipmunk squeaked grandly. "The sky is falling. It is satisfied but not stratified. And will get lower before it gets higher. Yet higher it will get, if freedom can make it so. What is needed is courage, vigor, and self-sacrifice. My loyal subjects, I give you these words of advice: Ask not what the sky can do to you, ask rather what you can do against the sky. And as for shelter, do not fear to build but do not build from fear. And remember throughout that the weather is not negotiable...
...Chicken Little went back to cultivating his garden. "Oh dear," he exclaimed, as another chunk of sky hit him on the head. But then he caught himself partiotically, remembering that one must, after all, accept such things in times of crisis and Congressional elections...