Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...become freshmen--that the class of 1967 undertook its first collective venture. Trunks still lay open in the bare rugless living rooms, and strange smells of mothballs, home-baked cookies and detergent mixed ungracefully with the fragrance of Indian Summer in the Yard. Outside Stoughton, under the quickly darkening sky, twenty-five of the new arrivals plotted with furtive relish their first attack on the 'Cliffie: a Panty Raid...
Give or take some creases over the eyes, the huge, leathery face has hardly changed. Nor have the jutting jaw, the laconic grin, the squinting eyes blue as the big sky. The shoulders on his rangy (6 ft. 4 in.) frame still seem persuasive enough to get his football scholarship to Southern Cal renewed. He still looks born to the saddle; in The War Wagon, he mounted his horse with his own steam, while Co-Star Kirk Douglas, ten years younger, had to leap aboard his mount with the help of an unseen trampoline. The only perceptible indications of Wayne...
...Sky Spy. Visitors at the show flocked to a huge mock-up of the 13.6-ton Proton satellite, which the Russians call a scientific-research vehicle. Space experts who examined the mock-up last week were reasonably certain, however, that the Proton is a prototype of one of the sections of a manned orbital-reconnaissance vehicle or even of a lunar landing craft that will be assembled in orbit before heading to the moon. The Proton on display in Paris consists of an 8-ft -diameter core section surrounded by a 14.8-ft.-diameter outer shell that could contain instrumentation...
...Moscow and Vladivostok. And Molniya satellites have relayed long-distance phone calls and taken weather pictures of the earth's cloud cover. Molniya was cluttered with so many unlabeled antennas and sensor systems that scientists figured that the satellite was also capable of serving a "spy in the sky" function over...
Desolate Planet. To cancel out the effects of any water vapor in the portion of the earth's atmosphere still above them, the airborne astronomers had also taken about 1,000 interferograms of the moon, which was close to Venus in the sky during the flight. Although the moon is known to be dry, the lunar spectrograms produced by the Block computers also showed evidence of a trace of water vapor. The vapor, the scientists knew, had been detected not on the moon but in the earth's atmosphere. Thus, by eliminating the same proportion of terrestrial vapor...