Word: skies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Science story on the flight of the sky shuttle Enterprise was reported by Houston Correspondent George Taber and written by Associate Editor Peter Stoler, who journeyed to Edwards Air Force Base to get the feel of the place and plan the coverage. In New York, it was checked by Senior Reporter-Researcher Sydnor Vanderschmidt. Watching Enterprise 's touchdown on TV, Researcher Vanderschmidt experienced a special kind of journalist's empathy. She is a sailplane pilot herself...
...Guelph sky has been a high, clean blue, the way boyhood skies appear in memory, and at the rink one feels a sense of boyhood. Of course, the men have me mix it with them. In full hockey gear -was any errant knight more burdened? -I skate till my back smarts and my thighs are lead. It is good to leave customary places and remember. This is how sport ought to be: play some, watch some, give pain, take pain, exult...
...free paint job along with the advertising motif, plus $20 a month. Aimed initially at college kids, the campaign has enlisted doctors, professors, lawyers, businessmen and bankers. Themes have included a mustachioed, sombreroed Mexican against an orange background (Ole Tequila), a red baron flying high in a blue sky (Seagram's Gin) and a hearts-and-cupids background emblazoned HOW'S YOUR LOVE LIFE? (Ultra-Brite toothpaste). Owners of Lincolns and Cadillacs have tried to enroll their cars, but to no avail. This form of beetlemania is for Volkses only...
...sky over the Wisconsin city of Oshkosh darkened last week as swarms of flying machines-biplanes and Breezies, power gliders and Gyrocopters, delta wings and Aerodusters-cavorted and capered in the air like drunken dragonflies. The occasion: the 25th annual convention of the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA), held at Wittman Field, where 430 homemade aircraft of every description registered for the festivities. Some, like Paul Sunday's 90%-completed Varieze, were trailered to Wisconsin. Others came in on a wing and a prayer. Michael Murphy, a TWA mechanic who built his sky-cycle from a photograph...
...remain undaunted and seem grimly determined to spread the new (and expensive) gospel. As Baltimore Lawyer and TM Teacher David Sykes, 28, explains it, levitation comes in three stages-hopping, or lifting off the ground a foot or two; then floating or hovering; and last, "actual mastery of the sky, flying at will." Adds Rashi Glazer, 27, a New Yorker who has started the new course but is not yet airborne: "Once you have experienced the absolute-even for a few minutes-flying is not a very big deal. I guess I will eventually walk through a wall...