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...another revolution in 1950, when Hollywood Columnist Frank Scully produced a book called Behind the Flying Saucers. The saucers, he wrote, are space ships from a foreign planet. They are manned by extraterrestrial midgets who are almost exactly like miniature humans except that they have no beards, only fuzz, and no cavities in their teeth. Their ships fly on magnetic lines of force, and are built of metal harder than diamond which stands up to temperatures that would wilt any earthly substance. Three of them crashed, said Scully, in the U.S. Southwest, and were impounded by the secretive Air Force...
...white-haired Rear Admiral George R. Henderson, commander of Task Force 77, listened to his pilots' reports on the results of their strike. One pilot's instruments had been damaged by enemy ground fire; another thought his plane had been hit too. A young ensign with peach-fuzz stubble on his chin indicated an enemy marshaling yard on the admiral's map. "We got a train here, sir, about ten or eleven cars." "Did they all burn?" the admiral asked. "No, sir," the ensign replied. "I think one group of five and another group of four burned...
Stanley Clifford Weyman, a sad-looking, smooth-talking man of 60, blended into the fuzz-buzz edges of Lake Success as easily as any of that strange new tribe of international do-gooders who are not quite diplomats, not quite newspapermen, and not quite experts on anything. A correspondent of the Erwin News Agency, (headquarters in Washington), he had broadcast interviews with U.N. notables over a Manhattan F.M. radio station, served as a tipster for the London Daily Mirror. He had a marked talent for big-name-dropping, and for catching rides in official delegation cars. He made himself popular...
Instead of "triggering a rainstorm," the objective is to turn the small water droplets . . . into fine snowflakes, so that the cloud will fuzz out and drift away instead of growing into a towering cumulus with an anvil top and lots of lightning...
...were significant, but they did not tell the whole story. The Senate was no longer a cave of winds echoing to the oratory of such agile and bitter isolationists as William Borah, Gerald Nye and Burton Wheeler. The dissenters of 1950 were less adept men, like Missouri's fuzz-tongued James P. Kem or Kenneth Wherry, the minority leader from Nebraska, or droning George Malone of Nevada. Conspicuous in their van last week stood the usually forceful and logical Robert A. Taft of Ohio. The President, said Taft, had no legal authority to take the measures he had taken...