Word: skies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minutes after takeoff, his eyes scanned the blue sky at 10,000 ft. When he prepared to land at various stops along the way, the air controllers; who knew the identity of the approaching flyer, usually directed him down with a certain audible deference. Glenn put the plane on automatic pilot and began talking about his early flying days. He was asked how clearly he remembered the dogfights over Korea, when he shot down three MiGs the last week of the war. He remembered every detail, he said. Two of the enemy pilots had been very good, but the third...
Wherever Candidate Glenn dropped out of the sky, in his home state or in Maine, where residents in one town hosed down their housefronts in preparation for his arrival, he was greeted with extraordinary warmth. It mattered little that the applause was always louder when he arrived than when he departed. After his speeches, voters lined up for autographs and snapshots. Like another hero and presidential candidate, Dwight Eisenhower, with whom he is frequently compared, Glenn's folk stature gives him tremendous believability with his audiences. Still, the crowds studied him carefully, trying to judge his competence. Is this...
...line and arrange a meeting right now, that very afternoon, Glenn in private showed disdain. He spotted Candidate Alan Cranston wearing a button that read STOP ACID RAIN NOW and shook his head. The emphasized now was too much for him. Glenn will offer no pies in the sky. "I'm just not going to run that way," he said...
Abdul-Jabbar is more of an aesthete, a sky-hooker, not a slam-dunker, devastatingly shy. He has never been able to hide the shame of his height. Fourteen years ago, Abdul-Jabbar (né Lew Alcindor, U.C.L.A. '69) told Teammate Jon McGlocklin that he intended to play no more than five seasons of pro ball. Recently he ran into McGlocklin, who reminded him of this. It started Kareem reflecting on this job that he has only lately considered a profession. "It's getting to be scary," he says, "all the teammates and opponents who have come...
...morning of May 14, a series of red, white and green celebratory flares shot into the sooty sky above the site. A military bugler tooted a few short notes. Then came the first blast, shaking nearby sandbagged bunkers, where dozens of journalists and officials huddled. It was followed by a second blast, and a third. A portion of the wall crumbled. Some flaming lava poured down the new channel and into the depression, but much of the lava continued down the old path. Only a portion of the molten rock had been diverted. Within four days, the artificial channel...