Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first time since Courrèges lifted hemlines two years ago - thus ushering in the yé-yé look and youth cult that nearly blew haute couture as well as skirts sky-high - there was news aplenty last week from the big high-fashion houses of Paris. Out to prove that yé-yé is only soso, 36 top designers presented new collections for spring and summer, striking out in all sorts of new directions...
...supersonic jet transport, the big bird has remained in a stall. In a bind over budget and congressional problems, President Johnson held back on funds that Boeing and G.E. need to make prototypes. Last week, however, the Administration hit on a new maneuver to start the SST toward the sky...
...gravitational force of the new satellite was so powerful that it raised great "tides" in the solid earth, literally causing it to bulge in the direction of the moon (a smaller bulge was raised on the opposite side of the earth). Because the moon moved more slowly across the sky when it was at its far-out apogee than the surface of the earth revolved below it, the bulge tended to lead the moon. Its gravity thus pulled forward on the moon. At perigee, when the moon was moving across the sky faster than the earth's rotation...
...Londoners could see no more than a yard ahead. Drivers were forced to leave cars and buses to peer closely at street signs to find out where they were. Policemen strapped on respiratory masks. The Manchester Guardian reported that London's midday sun "hung sulkily in the dirty sky with no more radiance than an unlit Chinese lantern...
...Cleaning. The unwholesome mess that U.S. citizens and corporations spew into that great sewer in the sky costs them dearly-$11 billion a year in property damage alone, according to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Air pollutants abrade, corrode, tarnish, soil, erode, crack, weaken and discolor materials of all varieties. Steel corrodes from two to four times as fast in urban and indus trial regions as in rural areas, where much less sulphur-bearing coal and oil are burned. The erosion of some stone statuary and buildings is also greatly speeded by high concentrations of sulphur oxides...