Word: giffen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week in Washington, Vice Admiral Robert C. Giffen (ret.), who had commanded U.S. forces during the great Alaskan "Battle of the Blips." had reason to recall his embarrassing adventure. Washington itself had just lived through a phantom invasion when unidentified blips on a Civil Aeronautics Authority radar brought jet fighters screaming over from Delaware to hunt "flying saucers" (TIME, Aug. 4). The fighters had shot down no night-flying saucers, but two of them had found radar targets. It appeared later that they had been drawing a bead on each other...
...Navy, said Admiral Giffen, was convinced by now that its Alaskan battle force had steamed in under a high-riding layer of warm air that acted as a kind of electronic ceiling. Radar pulses bounced off the "inversion" layer and echoed back from the Amchitka mountains, more than 100 miles away. A similar temperature inversion was hovering over the capital when the saucers flew in. Admiral Giffen thought that atmospheric conditions were still the best explanation for the ghostly targets...
Eleven students who were granted a continuance in Friday's trial go before Judge Louis Green at 9 a.m. this morning. They are David W. Cudhea '53, Augustus B. Field III '55, Charles Flather '54, Robert E. Giffen '52, Frederick Gooding Jr. '54, Frank M. Hardy '55, William S. Holbrook III '52, George H. Rose '54, Paul R. Rugo '55 and Norman Well...
...Tuesday, the cases of David W. Cudhea '53. Augustus B. Field, III, '55, Charles Flather '54, Robert E. Giffen '52, Frederick Gooding, Jr., '54, Frank M. Hardy '55, William S. Holbrook, III, '52, George, H. Rose '54, Paul R. Rugo '55, Oliver F. Wadsworth, Jr., '55, and Norman Weil, Jr., '54 will come before the court...
...Giffen said that she had called Constance Huntington Hall, a Radcliffe trustee, Saturday morning in the belief that the raised shades may have attracted the prowlers...