Word: donald
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leading them into making the most violent kind of statements," complains Newark Police Director Dominick A. Spina. The stations made no attempt to sort out the various agitators they put on-camera or assess their importance. "They picked on every black face who proclaimed himself a leader," says Donald Malafronte, administrative assistant to Mayor Addonizio. "Casuals who had never raised a voice in community affairs all of a sudden were spokesmen on television." TV newsmen disobeyed instructions to stay behind police lines. On one occasion, a policeman chasing a looter tripped over a television cable. "We're lucky...
SNOW WHITE, by Donald Barthelme. Translating the old story into contemporary idiom, Barthelme goes wild with words. His amusingly refurbished novel of the absurd is as episodic and pointless as a kaleidoscope, yet just as strangely affecting...
...UFOs (unidentified flying objects). Furthermore, Gallup reports, 46% of American adults believe that UFOs are something real. Scores of flying-saucer clubs are operating across the nation. They include small groups of semireligious eccentrics who worship saucermen and claim to have met them. They also include retired Marine Major Donald Keyhoe's serious and influential National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), the source of some of the best-documented UFO sightings...
...addition to the known natural phenomena mentioned by the Air Force to explain sightings, scientists suggest that there are probably still unknown or unverified atmospheric effects that could account for most of the unidentified apparitions. Astronomer Donald Menzel, former director of the Harvard College Observatory, believes that atmospheric refractions sometimes both magnify and bend the light from bright stars, causing them to resemble large and erratically moving disks. Electrical Engineer Philip Klass, an editor of Aviation Week & Space Technology, speculates that many UFOs may be a form of ball lightning generated by an electric corona that sometimes occurs on high...
Filling a Financial Gap. The five founder banks already operate a vast network of 2,365 branches in 34 countries, and I.C.B. sees these as its prime source of loan customers. "We expect to be able to finance projects anywhere in the world," says Donald Robson, joint general manager of Westminster Bank, who this week is due to be named general manager of the new operation. Commercial banks operating abroad deal largely with short-term loans of a year or less; securities underwritten by merchant banks provide long-term credit. By specializing in loans of one to six years...