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In this intelligently written and rational book (a rare phenomenon in UFO literature), Klass describes the scientific detective work that led him to decide on the probable cause of most previously unexplained UFO sightings. The enigmatic, incandescent objects, he concludes, are really a family of atmospheric phenomena that include not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Short Notices: Mar. 29, 1968 | 3/29/1968 | See Source »

Certainly the Crimson was a powerful machine, stacking up eight teams and having its unbeaten record marred only by a 10-10 tie with Princeton. Led by lightning halfback "Natick Eddie" Casey, Harvard's only All-American in 1919, the Crimson scored a phenomenal 222 points to their opponents' 13...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The History Of Harvard Sports | 3/16/1968 | See Source »

It also had a show for the case. The Benvenuti-Griffith confrontation was their third in less than a year. In the first, the unheralded Italian challenger astonished experts by easily outpointing Griffith for the title; in the second, last August, Emile won back the crown with his swarming attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prizefighting: Show for the Case | 3/15/1968 | See Source »

In their experiments, Chemist Cyril Ponnamperuma and Geochemist Gordon Hodgson flashed a continuous electric arc through a mixture of ammonia, methane and water vapor at NASA's Ames Research Center, near San Francisco. The arc simulated lightning, and the mixture was similar to the atmosphere that most scientists believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biochemistry: Chlorophyll & the Red Spot | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

Giant Crater. In a related experiment, Ponnamperuma and NASA Chemist Fritz Woeller flashed artificial lightning through a mixture of ammonia and methane simulating Jupiter's atmosphere. Besides producing amino acids and other organic materials that have led experimenters to speculate that primitive life could exist in the Jovian atmosphere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biochemistry: Chlorophyll & the Red Spot | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

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