Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...month of terror, Saigon has totally lost its old insular mood of relative peace and well-being and developed a bothersome split personality. By day, the South Vietnamese capital is struggling to regain a veneer of normalcy; by night, as artillery crashes in the suburbs and searchlights stab the sky, Saigon retreats to a mood of agonizing fear and foreboding, awaiting another Communist onslaught that most of its citizens feel is inevitable...
...large crowd turned out to see Wilson's final coaching appearance and his boys were psyched to the sky. Senior Jim Griswold made his first start and, symbolically, perhaps, got Harvard rolling with a slick...
...introduce as much daylight as possible, Kahn has designed slots that run along the top of each vault, permitting artfully diffused natural light to flood the galleries below. In random pattern, sections of the roof vaults have been removed to make open sculpture courts, providing greenery and glimpses of sky...
...next year. Now, it is the fall of next year. Snow turned to rain, to dirty tire-gray streams in the sidewalk ice. Then spring came slowly, stayed shortly. Commencement was not crisp and bright. The sky was thick and the ground was heavy. Then we lost them--the seniors--they disappeared in the witches' kettle of summer. We have not seen them since. And now it is the fall, and soggy leaves lie in the gutter like Corn Flakes left in the bowl too long...
...pictures taken by Surveyor 7's camera on the moon last week appeared to show only a crescent-shaped earth glowing in the lunar sky. But closer inspection showed two seemingly insignificant starlike dots of light on the night portion of the earth. They were historic dots. Each represented the light from an argon-ion laser beam aimed from Tucson, Ariz., and Wrightwood, Calif., at Surveyor's location near the lunar crater Tycho, some 240,000 miles away...