Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dimensional effect of these sculptures is heightened by the continuity of space -- the absence of distractions -- which a landscape, the sky in particular, provides. Most of Smith's sculpture done after 1950 demands to be seen outdoors...
Irrational Behavior. Santa Ana-like phenomena are not confined to Southern California. Similar hot, dry wind sweeping down mountain slopes is called "foehn" (pronounced, approximately, fain) in Austria and Germany, "chinook" along the U.S. and Canadian Rockies, "sky sweeper" on Majorca, "khamsin" in Israel, and "the Canterbury northwester" in New Zealand...
...resurgence of Northrop as an aircraft maker. The company developed the plane in 1959 at a relatively cheap cost of $80 million, of which the Government provided $60 million. It was designed to meet Jones's demand for a supersonic jet that "could survive and win in a sky full of MIGs" - yet sell at a price U.S. allies could afford...
...that will assure cloud-free visibility regardless of the weather below. Being airborne will also serve to prolong the viewing duration o the eclipse. For ground-based Noyes, totality will last about 90 seconds; but by flying at jet speed in the direction that the sun travels across the sky, Menzel will keep up with the eclipse for up to two and a half minutes...
...start, she picked a nag named Hanassi at 8-1 odds, then Mattinata at 100-8, Cutle at 5-1, Bucktail at 9-4, and Damredub at 100-8. For the last race at England's Newbury track, the lady picked Blazing Sky at 7-2 to win the six-furlong Theale Maiden Stakes. Sure enough, Blazing Sky came breezing across to take it by four lengths. "Ah!" cried the Duchess of Norfolk, 50, wife of the realm's premier duke. "How I like Newbury!" Indeed, Newbury had been very kind to her. On a wager...