Word: yondering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Morocco, Pilot Conrad stuffed his navigational charts in a brown envelope, a clutch of unpaid bills in another. He handed what he believed to be the bills to a well-wishing U.S. consular official, then flew off crosswind, with a one-ton overload of fuel, into the blue yonder, westbound for Trinidad as his first landfall. Casually opening his remaining envelope, he made a discomfiting discovery: he had mistakenly left his charts behind, had a choice of burning up his excess fuel and returning to Africa or of navigating with his unpaid bills. Little daunted, Conrad headed on westward...
...songs published and recorded by his firms on the Bandstand program. Although Bandstand played some of Clark's own tunes that became hits (Tallahassie Lassie, Okefenokee), he and Mammarella insist that they were played only because they were popular already. But Clark has also spun his Way Down Yonder in New Orleans, which is just now beginning to climb into the big time. Clark insists that he has never taken payola in any form, and many support him, including ABC. Says a Philadelphia record distributor: "Dick is a living doll. I've offered him pieces of songs...
Still, the famous Balcony scene is wholly enchanting, both aurally and visually. It is night, of course; and for Romeo and Juliet, as for Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, night is blissful and day abhorrent. "But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks?" As Juliet turns on her bedroom light, the odylic moment is underlined by some light tracery on a flute. Juliet appears in a white nightgown, sinks on her knees, spreads her elbows on the balcony to support her head, and lets the light catch her soft, blond tresses--all girlishly, but never awkwardly. The rest...
...forceful Donald Quarles made enemies. He refused to favor old Air Force friends, chopped their budget as severely as the Army's and Navy's. From Quarles's office came the orders for cutbacks and stretch-outs in defense contracts, for a slowdown on wild-blue-yonder research, for an end to competitive missile programs-all to keep the Defense budget within bounds while the U.S. maintained a weapons "sufficiency...
...chassis of a satellite television unit to a few cubic inches) and electroluminescence (e.g., picturing all of a plane's instrument readings on a cockpit window so the pilot will not have to glance away even when landing or taking off). While moving farther into the wild blue yonder, he is also readying new gadgets for planes. His newest commercial product: the $1,500 Navcom (combination communications and navigation instrument box), which puts even single-engined or twin-engined executive-type planes on a par with big commercial airliners when flying on instruments through rough weather...