Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...humiliating byproduct of the U-2 spy plane incident was the implicit suggestion that foreign aircraft flying high enough could cruise over Soviet territory almost at will, as they had for nearly four years. U.S. experts doubt the Russian claim that the U-2 was blasted from the sky at 68.000 ft., suspect from U.S. radar evidence that Pilot Francis Powers' jet engine simply flamed out in midpassage. At his Moscow trial, Powers was fuzzy on the point, and his father later hinted that Powers himself doubted he was shot down...
Clear air turbulence is exactly what it sounds like: an airplane speeding through a cloudless part of the sky can be ripped apart by an invisible tempest. CAT is most often met just above or just below the 30,000-35,000-ft. jet stream - and modern aircraft like best the levels near the great, racing jet stream. It has been agreed that CAT is caused by wind shear -the "friction" between adjacent air masses moving at different speeds. Last week Joseph J. George, chief meteorologist for Eastern Airlines, told how this knowledge might be put to work to predict...
...hero and heroine stepped aboard, the sailors cast off the hawsers, the ship glided away from the jetty. The sky glided with it. Seconds later, with the ship supposedly in open ocean and the waves quartering in on the windward rail, the crew started swaying fore and aft. The attempted stage illusion, like the ballet to which it belonged, was handsome, arresting-and just short of convincing. The occasion: the U.S. premiere last week of Ondine, Choreographer Frederick Ashton's most ambitious work to date...
Millions of people have watched Echo, the U.S. balloon satellite, as it crosses the sky. And most of them have noticed that it twinkles like a star and also brightens and dims slowly in a way that no star does. Why does it perform in this odd fashion? Last week the explanation came from Dr. Leonard Jaffe of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Echo's quick twinkling, said Jaffe, is caused by the same atmospheric irregularities that make stars wink. Some of its slower dimming may be due to thin patches of clouds, invisible at night-but most...
...much of Russia, and is the most conspicuous space vehicle launched so far. But the Soviet press and radio have made no mention of it. Unless a Soviet citizen follows foreign broadcasts, he does not know what to make of the bright star that creeps repeatedly across the night sky...