Word: skyward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rolls of barbed wire are coiled against brick factory walls. Sandbagged troop emplacements disfigure apartment blocks and churches. Soldiers in battle gear walk slowly down streets with loaded submachine guns crooked in their arms, muzzles pointed skyward but fingers on the triggers. Smashed shopwindows are boarded up. Scaffolding surrounds bombed buildings...
...Soviet Union's Sary-Shagan test range in the wilds of Kazakhstan, near the Mongolian border, a Galosh-type surface-to-air missile rose slowly from its launch pad. After climbing skyward, the rocket spread a dark, mile-wide cloud far above the lower atmosphere. It was a cloud that cast a shadow as far away as Washington. Last week U.S. intelligence sources reported that the test, conducted in September, involved a remarkable new anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system that could represent a major breakthrough...
...fact it is precisely Shultz's thoroughness and his disdain for the dramatic that has shot him skyward in the estimation of Richard Nixon, a man who prizes tidiness and detachment. While he is a onetime Democrat and distinctly left of the Nixon Administration's center, he prefers to consider himself "result oriented," an empirical, professional problem solver. When he met the press just after his appointment to the Cabinet in December 1968, he said that he was "a generalist," and added that he hoped the President would seek his advice on matters outside the narrow Labor Department...
...noncoms from both regiments, but no single designated leader. With them in civilian clothes was Brigadier General Robert Canterbury, the ranking officer on the campus, who said later: "I was there-but I was not in command of any unit." Some of the troops held their rifles pointed skyward. Several times a few of them turned, pointed their M1s threateningly at the crowd, and continued their retreat...
...soft, bamboo-covered Senri Hills, which slope gently skyward beyond the city of Osaka, have for centuries been home only to snakes and a host of insects. Not any more; at least, not for the moment. Today the Senri range, the site of Japan's gaudy Expo '70, throbs with life. After only four weeks, the turnstiles at the 815-acre, 73-nation exhibit have clicked off 8,500,000 visitors. The one-day high: 441,000, about equal to the entire population of Buffalo, N.Y. Before the rising sun sets on the 183-day extravaganza, some...