Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forbidden objectives, they hit a fuel dump at Tien Nong, seven miles northwest of Haiphong. The storage tanks were believed to hold 700 tons of oil for North Vietnamese trucks and power stations. The estimate was probably right: smoke from the fire rose more than two miles into the sky...
When he was not covering space shots at Cape Kennedy, Reporter John Wasik's fascination with the sky took him to nearby Green Air Park. With a parachuting club called the Falling Stars, Wasik, 29, a reporter for the Melbourne, Fla., Daily Times, made 17 weekend jumps, finding in his eerily placid descents a sense of euphoric freedom...
...Germany, Spain and Italy combined, great factories are springing up everywhere-in Hamadan, once the capital of the Aryan Medes; in Tabriz, where Marco Polo was entertained by the mongol Khans; in Isfahan, whose fragrant splendors led the Arabs to call it "One Half of the World." The night sky flares bright in the oilfields of Abadan, where the Zoroastrians built fire temples over ducts of natural gas. A railroad is stretching out across the treacherous Dasht-i-Kavir Desert, once traversed only by spice caravans from the Orient. A giant dam now irrigates the rolling grainlands below Shush...
Chain-Saw Power. The purists are proliferating. According to Paul Poberezny, president of the 40,000-member Experimental Aircraft Association, at least 2,500 homemade airplanes are currently buzzing about the U.S.'s crowded sky-with another 7,000 in various stages of construction in garages and basement workshops. "I know of one man," says Poberezny, "who built a plane in the cabin of a Great Lakes ore ship." Working in his spare time, with a good set of commercial plans (most popular: the Pitts Special biplane), a handy do-it-yourself enthusiast can turn out an airworthy...
...bottom of the sixth the sky had gone gray, as gray as the Twins--but from this sign alone one couldn't tell whose side Nature was on Lonborg was the first batter, and he beat Chance again, this time with a rolling bunt. That was it. One didn't need a psychic model to interpret this key. Fortune was gleefully clubbing us with blatant clues. Adair, Jones and Yastrzemski followed with singles. The score was tied...