Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brave Notion. As the flames of the burning African townships lit the sky around Bulawayo, police and Southern Rhodesian soldiers with fixed bayonets sealed off the African settlements, slowly began to close in. For three days the riots raged. Finally, as liquor supplies in the African quarters began to give out, order was restored. The eleven dead were the first Africans killed by white troops in Southern Rhodesia since the Mashona Rebellion was quelled...
...blare of bands and the fluttering of banners, 700 pigeons winged into the sky over Portland, Ore. last week to carry the good news to 29 Oregon and Washington cities. The news: the opening this week on the east bank of Portland's Willamette River of the sprawling (50-acre), $100 million Lloyd Center, the largest urban shopping center ever built...
Suddenly the blue-green Gulf Stream erupted with convulsive fury. Like a giant marlin in a cascade of brine, a grey, bottle-shaped monster leaped into the afternoon. For an instant it hung against the sky-silent, ominous, streaming foam. Then it came alive with unearthly racket. Its tail belched flame, and it climbed into its new element with incredible ease. Arcing high into the thin, cold reaches of space, the first ballistic missile ever to be fired from a submerged submarine swung surely toward the south and east. Polaris, named for the mariner's bright pole star, needed...
...does not claim that his microspheres are alive, but he thinks that something like them may have been a step in nature's progression toward life. If amino acids were continually raining down from the sky, it is natural to suppose that considerable quantities of them accumulated on fairly hot parts of the young earth's surface. The heat made them react, as in Dr. Fox's lab; after they had turned into proteinlike molecules, heavy rain dissolved them and washed them into the sea. There they cooled and formed microspheres, each of which packaged together...
...high jump bar was at 7 ft. 3¾ in. when Boston University's John Thomas, 19, kicked his right leg at the sky, and bellied over to break his own world record by 1¾ in. "I don't know how high I can go," said Thomas later. "I'll let you know some other...