Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ALAN KAPROW dressed himself in black plastic, donned a World War I helmet, dubbed himself "The Neutron Kid," and set Southampton on its ear with a three-day Happening that included smoke bombs, sky divers and giant, helium-filled balloons. See MODERN LIVING...
...being pressed against the enemy's home base exclusively from the sky, there seems little way to reduce the risks for U.S. airmen. But the losses are by no means one-sided. Last week U.S. air strikes damaged or destroyed 355 North Vietnamese barges, 165 bridges, 147 trucks, 69 railroad cars, 58 oil dumps, 36 flak sites, and 2 SAM sites-also a new week's record...
...dark sea off Viet Nam one night last week, British Freelance Photographer Tim Page was along for the ride as the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Point Welcome routinely searched for enemy gunrunners. Suddenly, two U.S. Phantom jets flashed out of the sky, inexplicably assuming that the cutter was an enemy trawler. Page drowsily stumbled on deck and was immediately riddled with shrapnel. At 22, Page had become the first allied correspondent to be wounded three times in the Viet Nam war-and survive...
...open their eyes and squinted when a rock-'n'-roll band moved onto the beach and began blasting away in the hot afternoon sun. Then, in quick succession, giant, helium-filled balloons took off skyward, a red smoke bomb exploded, and from a plane overhead four hired sky divers plummeted downward. The doings brought crowds running from all along the beach, but Kaprow was unhappy: "I was looking for more surprises, and everything came out very orderly." It almost didn't. Two of the parachutists missed the beach by a wide margin and landed in the ocean...
Comet Kilston -- the discoverer always gets the comet named after him -- too faint to be seen by the naked eye, and will probably remain invisible. With telescope, it can be picked up in the southern sky at mid-evening, seemingly moving to the southeast...