Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gaping Loophole. Skeptics were quick to point out that the Administration had merely denied reports that it had been asked by parties unknown to deploy nuclear weapons; no one specifically repudiated gossip that their use was under consideration by the Pentagon. Nor did General Wheeler ease the skeptics' concern when he was asked at a press conference about using tactical nukes in Viet Nam. Sidestepping the broad question, he repeated: "I do not think that nuclear weapons will be required to defend Khe Sanh." The implication, to many, was that nukes were at least available as a last resort...
...sonar operator needs a highly trained ear to sort out the sounds of the sea. Apart from a sub's noises, the sea is full of other sounds, a syncopated symphony of crackling shrimp, clucking sea robins and grunting whales; there is even the engine-like throb of an unknown sea animal that Navymen call the "130-r.p.h. fish." Once the various sounds have been sorted out, the American sub hunters flash the details of the sub's signature to a Navy base in the U.S., where a computer has memorized the signatures of the vast majority of the Soviet...
...Lady of the Sonnets was still with him, hiding discreetly in one corner of the lobby while Evgeny bellowed at photographers: "Just one picture of me alone!" Then the poet and his muse popped into a Russian embassy car and headed for the airport, whence they left for parts unknown...
...fellow refugees from Russian ghetto life, who once they had arrived in Paris, turned toward cubism, like Jacques Lipchitz, or, like Chagall, romanticized the shtetl folklore with fiddlers on the roof. At the time that Lithuanian-born Soutine went to Ceret, he was still in his 20s, all but unknown. There he embarked on a series of extraordinarily dislocated mountain views, with houses and trees piled like limp wads of anthropomorphic soil...
Planet of the Apes "The monkey," said Henry Ward Beecher, "is an organized sarcasm upon the human race." The sarcasm is seldom allowed to speak for itself in this film about a space odyssey that goes awry and crash-lands three astronauts on an unknown planet. They have been traveling for a cool millennium or so, but their craft has been zooming along at close to the speed of light, and so-in accordance with Einstein's Time-Dilation Theory-they have scarcely aged, save for some grey in their beards. At first, all they find is sand...