Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exhilaratingly to 3,000 ft. or so, then pop their chutes for a landing. Ordinarily, such high-altitude jumps are made only after meticulous planning, on clear, calm days, from perfectly positioned aircraft, to targets safely distant from such hazards as rivers and lakes. On this day, though, the sky was mostly overcast at 4,500 ft., the winds aloft ranged up to 60 m.p.h., the air craft was a World War II B-25 bomber with rudimentary navigation equipment, and the pilot was Robert Karns, 29, who had never bothered to get a "type rating" for the plane...
...last month's cloud cover to station more of their antiaircraft guns and SAM missiles just north of Hanoi. Air Force Ace Robin Olds noted that "there were also some MIGs to liven things up." Two of them were gunned down by Air Force Lieut. David Waldrop. The sky was so thick with planes that the North Vietnamese joined in the MIG-shoot too; they accidentally shot down one of their planes with a SAM missile...
Mercury Montego that replaces the smaller, slow-selling Comets,* Ford Group Vice President Lee lacocca predicted a 9,000,000-car year, barring a strike, which would blow that prospect "sky-high...
Fathom is yet another lifelike vinyl imitation of spy spoofs, starring Raquel Welch in a title role painful enough to make Modesty Blaise cry U.N.C.L.E. A toothsome dental assistant, Fathom spends her holiday sky-diving in Spain. Recruited by British agents, she becomes involved in a labyrinthine scheme to recover the Fire Dragon, a bejeweled piece of china stolen from Peking...
...Magritte called himself a "secret agent," alluding to the disparity between appearance and reality in both his life and art. He painted as he dressed, mostly in banker's black and grey, composing his scenes with photographic accuracy. But what impish fantasies: cigar boxes puffing smoke, a leaden sky raining tiny, bowler-hatted figures, the leaning tower of Pisa buttressed by a feather, Botticelli's Primavera superimposed on the back of a businessman's overcoat. "People are always looking for symbolism in my work," he once said. "There is none. Mystery is the supreme thing...