Word: objectives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first job-writing adventure stories for teenagers' magazines-lasted ten months, after which he was offered the post of editorial writer for the Edinburgh Scotsman. Two years later, when he was planning to get married, he looked about for additional sources of income. He entered a contest, the object of which was to find a successor to one Annie S. Swan, who was about to retire at the peak of a successful career writing "romances for factory girls." Campbell submitted two stories, one under a pen name, the other under his fiancee's name. The stories won first...
When Belgium's 21-year-old King Baudouin, the world's most eligible bachelor monarch, left to join his family for a visit in Italy, wishful matchmakers thought they could hear the distant peal of royal wedding bells. The object of their speculation: Princess Margherita, 22, a cousin of the late King Victor Emmanuel. It was more than coincidence, they insisted, that members of both families had met in Rome and Florence...
...widely. Some are hazy globes; some are bright lights. Some are cigar-shaped, wingless "airplanes"; others are spinning disks. Some of the saucers fly singly; others in formation. They fly both by day and by night; they zigzag abruptly. It is obvious, concluded Menzel, that no single type of object, such as a novel aircraft, can be behind all the stories...
Most striking things about the saucers are 1) their silence, 2) their habit of darting in violent zigzags and 3) their apparent high speed. Dr. Menzel does not take the reported speed at its face value. "Unless you know the size of an unfamiliar object," he says, "you cannot judge its distance, and unless you know its distance, you cannot judge its speed...
...what nonmaterial, saucerlike object can move quickly, silently, and in violent zigzags? One such thing is a spot of light. It is easy to swing the beam of a searchlight (across high clouds, for instance) and make its bright spot seem to travel at many thousand m.p.h. The spot of light moves silently and it can change direction as abruptly as any saucer...