Word: menzel
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...Navy and the Air Force weren't speaking to each other and it was a number of years before the truth was known," Donald H. Menzel, Paine Professor of Astronomy, told an audience of about 25 in the Kirkland House JCR last night...
...Menzel, who is also Science Editor of Galaxy Magazine, has been called the "arch-demon of saucerdom" for his research as a UFO trouble-shooter for the Air Force. He has been a major debunker in the debate between scientists and those whom he called "urologists-writers and researchers who have attempted to demonstrate that UFO's are sightings of spaceships guided by intelligent beings from another planet...
...Menzel last night praised the 1969 report on UFO's by a University ofColorado research team headed by Edward U. Condon. The report suggested that the Air Rorce abandon its 20-year role as arbiter and compiler of UFO reports...
...evidence of the unfitness of a military agency to serve as UFO control, Menzel mentioned the Godman sighting, in which an Air Force pilot, Robert Mantell, was sent up in an Air Force plane to track an unidentified flying object which had been sighted near Godman Air Force Base in Kentucky...
...Nemec's Report on the Party and its Guests comes in the aftermath of a Czech film craze, but it's a more difficult work than those we've been used to: unlike the descriptive approaches of a Forman or a Menzel, Report is a highly stylized film, philosophically abstract and frankly allegorical. Nemec's earlier work, such as Diamonds of the Night , lacked these elements, so much of the credit for Report must lie with co-scenarist Ester Krumbachova, who also collaborated with Nemec on The Martyrs of Love and with Vera Chytilova on the brilliant Daisies...