Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result, American pilots in Viet Nam must possess a versatility unknown to their World War II counterparts. They man a varied flock of craft ranging from the sleek, 1,500-mile-an-hour F-4C Phantom jets to windmilling Skyraiders. Their work is peculiarly dangerous, involving multiple threats from sky and ground; more than 300 American planes have been shot down. It takes guts and guile...
...corner, a man machinegunned six people wiht "hellos." "Hello," he said, and lightning washed across the sky and the red light is the Lowell House bell tower flared scariet...
Though a light rain and jet sky gave the thickly planted court the macabre air of a Hawthorne novel, some 100 persons turned out to mark Herbert Hoover's birthday (Aug. 10, 1874), the annexation of Hawaii (Aug. 12, 1898), and the patenting of the washing machine (Aug. 9, 1910). There was little else to celebrate...
...recent graduate of Harvard scanning the California sky found a "star out of place" last Sunday night...
Mission photographs were disappointing-the team brought back no movies or still pictures of Collins' two EVAs or of the earth from the 476-mile record apogee. Young's films of the space walk showed nothing but blurry blue sky. Ironically, the best black-and-white movies show nothing more enlightening than the crew mugging in the spacecraft with a free-floating camera. Even so, NASA officials were quick to point out that the crew did shoot the first daylight pictures of a docked Gemini-Age-na-and one of the most spectacular views of the earth...