Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rube Goldberg-style gadgetry that the Viet Cong sometimes seem to prefer even to their newly acquired modern amenities. Not long ago, an American patrol near a 1st Air Cavalry base in the Central Highlands came across a monster crossbow hidden in the jungle. It was cocked at the sky, ready to shoot a six-foot spear into some unsuspecting chopper...
...fellow meets a girl for cocktails for two, life is just a bowl of cherries. The music goes round and round-an unchained melody or a fascinating rhythm-and it seems like old times. It's just one of those things. Like a marshmallow moon in a buttermilk sky, it's magic. Whippoorwills call. 'Swonderful. Delightful. Delirious. Delovely...
That Summer-That Fall, by Frank D. Gilroy. Fate is a fury, and it cannot be dramatically served at room temperature. Like meteors, the heroes and heroines of tragedy consume themselves in flaming arcs of passion as they streak across the night sky of destiny. Playwright Gilroy (The Subject Was Roses) has had the dubious inspiration to modernize the Phaedra plot of Euripides and Racine and play it cool. His drama is as incendiary as a wet match head...
...speed up as it nears its closest approach (28.7 million miles) to the sun, and to slow down as it moves away to a maximum distance of 43.6 million miles. About four days before Mercury comes closest to the sun, Soter says in the current issue of Sky and Telescope, its increased angular velocity around the sun just matches its rotational rate about its own axis. To an observer on Mercury, the sun at this point would appear to stand still in its east-to-west transit of the skies. Then, as Mercury picked up even more speed, whipped past...
Desert of Failure. The terrain itself is the real villain of the novel. The "territory" is a dreadful place of waterless rivers where turtles encrust a rock like scabs, and the "so-oopwha wind" reddens the sky with sandstorms. The only hope for anyone in such a place is to get away from it. Feebly, Ferris' daughter tries to escape, but, though beautiful, she is dim-witted and can't pass the exams that might get her a city job. The place is too much for her; the jackals and the thorn trees have won, she wails. Novelist...