Word: skies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elusive as they weary of all the conflicting pressures. As one pro-Reagan delegate, Delaware's William Swain Lee, explained his fed-up feelings, "After what I've been through, I'd stay with Reagan even if the heavens opened up and a voice from the sky told me I was wrong." Plainly, many of the Ford delegates were digging in too as the Kansas City showdown neared...
...boom-or-bust U.S. airline industry, profits have been about as permanent as a jet contrail in a wind-blown sky. Yet last week there was evidence that at least some form of profitability had returned to the nation's eleven major scheduled carriers; it is expected to stay intact through the busy summer tourist season and probably through the end of the year. One by one, the airlines reported sharply increased second-quarter earnings-or dramatically reduced losses-v. the savagely depressed similar period of a year ago, when the recession was cutting deeply into pleasure and business...
Above the horizon, the Martian sky looked surprisingly bright*-evidence, say some scientists, that the atmosphere is richer than expected in light-diffusing particles. In the sky was a shadow- perhaps a cloud composed of water vapor...
...rocks were also coated with a reddish stain, strongly suggesting the presence of iron that had rusted in the presence of atmospheric or waterbound oxygen. Other rocks, blue-green and opalescent, reminded some scientists of copper ore. After correcting the color values on the photograph, scientists decided that the sky, which looked blue in the original print, was really of a pinkish hue. All in all, the view, far from being alien and forbidding, seemed almost inviting. "Oh, gosh, that's just lovely," said Thomas Mutch, head of the team charged with interpreting Viking's photography. "You just...
Astronomy is the oldest science, yet for most terrestrials the night sky remains a confusing game of join the dots. Faced with incomprehensible distances, intimidating mathematics and names like Triangulum Australe, the temptation is to do one's stargazing on the Tonight show. But the attraction to heavenly bodies persists. In an age when science and philosophy dress in basic black, colorful beliefs about the personal influence of the stars flourish-particularly in a specialized union of pseudo scholarship and science fiction that could be called fiction science. Like astrology or its medieval cousin alchemy, fiction science tries...