Word: eras
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During the U.S. saucer era, which began when Pilot Kenneth Arnold reported seeing nine disklike objects erratically moving through the air near Mount Rainier in 1947, an Air Force unit called Project Blue Book has logged and evaluated more than 11,000 sightings. In most cases, the investigators eventually identified the UFOs as aircraft, balloons, satellites, flocks of birds, light reflected off clouds or shiny surfaces, atmospheric phenomena, meteors, stars, planets and the aurora borealis. Only 6% of saucer reports are listed by Blue Book as "unidentified" or unexplained. But Blue Book staffers have often announced arbitrary-and incorrect-solutions...
...that the Soviet Union has rebuilt the cities that were devastated by the German army in World War II, and now that the Cold War tension of the Stalinist era has eased, Russia is becoming an increasingly popular target for tourists. In 1956, fewer than 500,000 foreigners were adventurous enough to travel through the U.S.S.R.-one-eighth the number that visited France the same year-and about three-quarters of them were from the Communist countries of Eastern Eu rope. This year, which marks the 50th anniversary of the Revolution, Russia expects more than 1,500,000 tourists...
...Bureau of Intelligence and Research; from early 1963 until soon after the assassination, he was Assistant Secretary for Far Eastern Affairs, then resigned under pressure because of his anti-Administration stand on Viet Nam. This book is Hilsman's contribution to the growing library of the Kennedy era. Cast in the form of studies in statecraft, it attempts -sometimes too ambitiously-to be at once an exploration of political process, a history and a memoir...
Frustrations. During his six months in office, the state's first Republican Governor in 93 years has been somewhat less successful in opening the "era of excellence" that he talked about in his inaugural. "We're making progress every bit as fast as I hoped," he insists, "though quite obviously there have been some frustrations...
Close to Aristocracy. Today, the scions of the great families administer their institutions and their inheritances, and support their favorite charities, as usual calling little attention to themselves. Time has tempered the extravagances of another era. Author Birmingham, who has previously confined his work mostly to fiction, treats his subjects affectionately as well as skillfully. He calls them "the closest thing to aristocracy that the city, and perhaps the country, had seen...