Word: allen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...question of motive became important. As the years passed, 15 books, including one by Allen Dulles (then in charge of U.S. espionage against Germany), were written to show that to an unsuspected extent, the plot was a sincere and patriotic attempt to save the honor of a nation. Postwar German courts absolved the plotters of treason, and each July 20, German newspapers have published eulogies of the conspirators. But the old argument about unquestioning loyalty in wartime lived on among diehard anti-July 20 officers, while the rest of the country preferred to forget the incident along with everything else...
...Circus (Allied Artists) is an attempt by Producer Irwin (The Sea Around Us) Allen to shoot the rapids of the old DeMille stream. Under 120,000 sq. yds. of studio canvas (v. about 80,000 sq. ft. for a Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey big top), he presents a parade of stars-from a plumper Peter Lorre as a white-face clown to Mrs. Bing Crosby on a flying trapeze-and backs them up with everything from lion tamers and wire walkers to the Ronnie Lewis Trio, the Flying Alexanders, and Hugo Zacchini. the Human Cannon Ball. But as Ringmaster...
...fortune ($40 million)-and still finds time to hustle continuously from continent to continent as envoy extraordinaire of U.S. capitalism. This week Norman Winston hopped off to Moscow to help open the first American National Exhibition in the Soviet Union as a special adviser to Fair Coordinator George V. Allen...
...Madrid's National Observatory one afternoon last week, a group of U.S. astronomers peered at the sky with astronomers' telescopes that can see planets and stars in bright daylight. Headed by Dr. Allen Hynek of the Smithsonian's Cambridge Astrophysical Observatory, the scientists were in Spain to take full advantage of a rare event. The planet Venus, 55 million miles from the earth in the solar system, was passing directly in front of the bright star Regulus in miniature eclipse, and though the two were 400 trillion miles apart (67 light-years), the star's light...
Recently Dr. Frank Donald Drake of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank, W. Va. theorized that Jupiter's radio waves do not come from the atmosphere at all but from a vast Jovian version of the double doughnut of Van Allen radiation that surrounds the earth. Ionized particles from the sun zigzagging back and forth in Jupiter's magnetic field must be sending out "synchrotron radiation" like the circling particles in a synchrotron. The theory alerts future space explorers to steer well clear of Jupiter. If their ship should cruise too close, they might be fried...