Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that will be vital at higher altitudes, where conventional controls turn mushy in the thin atmosphere. They worked fine. Descending, he looked out of his tiny window at most of California, part of Oregon and Baja California in Mexico, noting that the horizon wore a white halo and the sky was "a nice, dark blue...
...period in which the sun would predictably be active. It worked fine: the sun's face showed lots of spots, flares and other eruptions that filled the solar system with violent radiation, caused magnetic storms on earth, stirred up the Van Allen radiation belts and lit the night sky with bright auroras. Now solar scientists need a relatively somnolent solar period with which to compare the IGY results. So they have selected 1964-65, when the sun will be at the bottom of its activity cycle, as an International Quiet Sun Year. Inevitably it will be known as IQSY...
...into a magician. The hill becomes a slippery sandbox of rhythm in the frosty intensity of late winter afternoon. But crossed tips can make a four-stitch salad out of a novice leg. The end: the skier looks out of a mountain urinal at the back of the city sky...
...Concubines. The palace gates opened. Shrieks rose to the sky as the coffin of King Mohammed V emerged, draped in a venerable black, green and gold cloth that, by tradition, had hung at the tomb of the Prophet in Mecca. Rhyth mically the crowd cried "Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar!" (God is most great). Thus last week King Mohammed V. the found er of independent Morocco, was laid to rest in the royal mausoleum. Mohammed, though recently prone to hypochondria, was in good health and enjoyed life with his two wives and an estimated 28 concubines. Yet last week, swiftly...
...home in the theater, drawing all the score's turbulence from the orchestra without trying to make it the star of the show at the singers' expense. Cecil Beaton contributed dazzling if hardly daring sets, notably a kind of winged pagoda against a distant, unreal blue sky, which suggested that Turandot is not set in a real China but in an exotic region of the mind...