Word: yonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...extremes of temperature. For Los Angeles' Garrett Corp., the hostility of space is an industrial bonanza. Since it pressurized the cabins of World War II's high-flying B-29 bombers, Garrett has become the U.S.'s foremost specialist in keeping men alive in the yonder beyond their familiar surroundings. Garrett supplies oxygen gear for the Mercury astronauts, and is designing the breathing systems and environmental controls that will see U.S. Apollo crewmen to the moon...
...long since have vanished from the earth." Watching the stars, he brings the trained mind of the evolutionist to bear on the possibility of the existence of life on other planets, but explains his conclusion with his own special brand of eloquence: "Life, even cellular life, may exist out yonder in the dark. But high or low in nature, it will not wear the shape of man. That shape is the evolutionary product of a strange, long wandering through the attics of the forest roof, and so great are the chances of failure, that nothing precisely and identically human...
...Meanwhile, back yonder in Texas, Billie Sol kept getting himself deeper into the soup. He was arrested in Abilene last week after driving his white 1961 Cadillac 1) through a stop sign, 2) the wrong way into a one-way street, 3) without a driver's license. On the way to the station house, he complained to the cop who had pinched him: "I've been blamed for a lot of things I didn't do. A lot of things are not true. I respect the law all the way." That statement has not yet been definitized...
...could plow words together like that but a Pentagon flack? What in the wild blue yonder is he talking about...
Wild Blue Yonder. Last week Starbird's team was rebuilding Christmas Island from the coral up. Shallow-draft lighters ferried in materials from ships anchored in deep water. Huge water-distilling plants arrived piecemeal in great crates. Engineers got ready to lay down an entirely new airstrip. A forest of long-range communications masts and antennas began to rise. Back in the U.S., task force ships docked on both the East and West coasts prepared to sail for the Pacific...