Word: manner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lonely hills northwest of Ann Arbor, Frank Manner stepped from his farmhouse one night last week to quiet his yelping dogs. Off beyond the cornfield, he spied a glowing, "quilted" object-which he later sketched in detail -bobbing over a swamp. After a futile attempt to stalk it, Manner called police, who also saw the apparition...
...next night, Manner's farm looked like a fairground. Saucer-seekers bearing telephoto lenses trooped to the swamp through driving rain. From the University of Michigan came a scientist who welcomed extraterrestrial visitors by flashing the universal equation of pi with his car headlights - three blinks, one blink, then four blinks. He got no response, to the loud chagrin of Renee Scott, 3, who came with her parents, ex pecting to see a spaceman with "green, yellow and orange-juice hair...
...sure sign of primaveral delirium, the sighting touched off pandemic reports of preternatural phenomena across the U.S. Manner's drop-in was followed by a shimmering object that settled obligingly on a marshy Michigan hollow in full view of 87 Hillsdale Col lege coeds and a county civil-defense director. Ann Arbor's Democratic Congressman Weston E. Vivian called for a Defense Department investigation of the unearthly goings-on. Michigan's Gerald Ford, House Republican leader, suggested a congressional inquiry. Air Force investigators donned hip boots to slog through Michigan marshland...
...seems to be catching up with the moral election returns. In three major decisions last week, it joined the growing body of Americans revolted by the growing body of U.S. pornography - the books, films, plays and magazines hawked on count less street corners with lurid sales pitches promising all manner of sex, all imaginable deviations, combinations and permutations. Ruling on three cases involving no fewer than 144 publications, the court handed down some bad news for U.S. smut peddlers...
...quasars and radio galaxies appear to lie so close to the peculiar galaxies in the sky. The explanation, he believes, is that they were formed from great masses of matter expelled from exploding central galaxies between 10 million and one billion years ago. If they were formed in this manner, he concludes, they must still be relatively close to their parent galaxies, which are located only 30 million to 300 million light-years from the earth. They would not have reached the cosmological distances suggested by Schmidt...