Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Word from Flying Objects. Unhappily, he took no other earthling along on his subsequent space jaunts, and his photographs invariably turned out a bit murky because of atmospheric interference, naturally. But his first book (Flying Saucers Have Landed) sold nearly 100,000 copies, and this year he went on a worldwide lecture tour. In England last month, he got a letter from the lady head of the Dutch Unidentified Flying Objects Society, saying that she had received a call from the palace "that the Queen would like to receive...
...friend used their skill as a "sales adjunct" when they wanted to warm up prospects with a laugh or two. That afternoon in Shor's, the Andrea Doria collision was still in the headlines, so Phillips swung naturally into the Italian bit...
...some alarm, the Dallas P.T.A. council last week urged the board of education to take stern measures-and quickly. The board warmly received one P.T.A. suggestion that all married students be banned from extracurricular activities next year. A second P.T.A. idea-consigning married students to separate schools-seemed a bit startling at first gulp. Mused one board member: "We already have a racial segregation problem here. Are we about to face a marriage segregation problem...
...single-minded drive of a piston. He worked in auto plants in summer, went to Dartmouth, then to M.I.T. ('36) for his degree in engineering. After several years at other companies, he arrived at Pontiac, as a menial "tool chaser." He tried everything, just so it added another bit of experience: defense plant chief inspector, car-assem bly superintendent, assistant master mechanic, boss of a new "process develop-ment" section searching to make prod- ucts more efficiently. Says Knudsen: "As long as you're interested enough to take any job that comes along, you'll find something...
When a Crimson team compiles a 15-2 record and still considers its season a bit of a disappointment, chances are that one of those losses was to Yale. This was the case with this spring's varsity tennis team, which found the Elis, led by Davis Cup nominee Donald Dell, just a little too tough to handle...