Word: skies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Using anti-aircraft weapons with names like Elaine, Caryn and Wendy, the Harvard women's basketball team shot the Ithaca Bombers out of they sky Saturday in Ithaca, N.Y., 62-51, and returned to base with the Cornell Tournament championship securely in their grasp...
...first two days as we put on our parkas and our warm--ups and rode the lifts. There was already a lot of snow on the ground-nice lightsvowder, came to right above your ankles, perfect conditions for "the powder capital of the West." On the third day, the sky turned mean and the wind whipped though your warmups. It was lunch when it happened-you felt it at first, the Snow Pine lodge shook a little and the earth rumbled but there was nothing to see from the window. The earth shook, nothing, mind you, like California shook that...
...money for him--$50, $100, $122.37--if he got us the airport for our flight. Battle plans were hastily drawn up. The male chaperone-a track coach at Pali High and a former sprinter, would make a run for the gate. The rest of us would run interference, grabbing sky cabs, ticket checkers and paging people who might help stop the flight. When we got to the airport the chaperone left hell in his path, a chaos of people and bags strewn on the linoleum floor...
Morrison, a sen-described "radical Copernican," said earthlings possess an unfounded conception of themselves as a special "galactic club." "The millions of stars in the great sky have little more consequence in our daily life than to steer an occasional migrating bird," Morrison said, nothing that the sun has all-important impact and significance in our lives...
...Space Story (Harper & Row; $6.95) mixes the wandering spirit of science fiction with the unalterable facts of astronomy. Gazing at a night full of stars. Sam asks his mother what kind of people could possibly live out there. Galaxies away, another boy gazes out at a different sky and wonders what kind of people could possibly live out there...