Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week when U.S. spacemanship and missilery had won bold successes-the orbiting of Samos, the spy-in-the-sky satellite (see SCIENCE); the clean triumph of the new solid-fuel Minuteman ICBM; the Project Mercury shot and recovery of an "astronaut" chimpanzee*-President Kennedy's grim announcements seemed curiously out of phase, as if he had stumbled upon a copy of the Soviet Doomsday Book...
Tilting a 100-kw. high-frequency radar transmitter 71° into the night sky near Washington, D.C. last April 22, Gallet aimed a radar beam at what he believed to be a pipe that would carry the signal to a point in the South Pacific Ocean just off the southern tip of South America. Two-tenths of a second later, an echo came bounding back-after a round trip of 37,000 miles...
...postponed. Snow stopped falling, the sky cleared, and a white winter sun shone down. At 12:51 o'clock on Jan. 20, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, his breath frosty in the frigid air, raised his right hand and pronounced the fateful words: "I do solemnly swear...
...smoke to Dow Chemical Co. Besides skywriting, she sees a wide variety of potential uses for her discovery. Among them: 1) smokes to protect crops from frost; 2) military smokescreens and signals; 3) seeding rain clouds; 4) throwing up screens for the projection of movies (or advertising) on the sky...
...aloft. He is a scarred warrior, accustomed to discomfort, danger and travail. He is not to be defeated; for having so many times emerged victorious, no other outcome enters his thinking. His home is in his flight bag, his wardrobe a rumpled uniform, and his office in the sky...