Word: explains
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Last week, after the correspondents had made their protests, the 65th Infantry's public-information officer tried to explain away the seizure of correspondents' notes as a "misunderstanding." But in Seoul, U.P. Bureau Chief Wendell Merick was not satisfied. He wrote a letter to Eighth Army Commander Maxwell D. Taylor, asking about the command's press policy. At first Lieut. General Taylor's press officer said the questions would not be answered because they were "impolite." Then, apparently after consulting the Army's "ten commandments" on public information policy (sample: "The fundamental concept...
...author himself has seen flying saucers, but his training in scientific observation has enabled him to explain what he saw. But other authorities have only added to the mystery. Menzel sharply criticizes the Air Force for the shrouds of secrecy with which it has enveloped its Project Saucer. By using such methods as instructing people who have seen "saucers" to remain silent about their experience, it has only added to the state of alarm...
Some of the optical phenomena, such as the famous Lubbock Lights, are easily reproduced in the laboratory, or indeed, even in the Kitchen. If such experiments do not explain everything that saucer observers have reported, they at least leave it to be inferred not that the earth is being visited by some superior beings from outer space, but that there is an urgent need for serious scientific study of the earth's atmosphere. Air Force and Navy guided missiles are engaged in such a study right now, gathering information at altitudes not yet, accessible...
...bulletin quoted "reliable Washington sources" as reporting Furry had been suspended until after he testified again before the Velde Committee. No attempt was made to explain who "the reliable sources" were...
Today, Tufts' coach and committeeman Charlie Hafey will be on hand at the hockey writers' luncheon to "explain" the selections -- selections which obviously need no explanation...