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...famous Lubbock Lights, are easily reproduced in the laboratory, or indeed, even in the Kitchen. If such experiments do not explain everything that saucer observers have reported, they at least leave it to be inferred not that the earth is being visited by some superior beings from outer space, but that there is an urgent need for serious scientific study of the earth's atmosphere. Air Force and Navy guided missiles are engaged in such a study right now, gathering information at altitudes not yet, accessible...
...declaration of war against the U.S.S.R., but it meant that Formosa no longer recognized Russia's right to be in Dairen and Port Arthur, or any other Russian rights on the Chinese mainland, and it implied a restoration of the Chinese claim to Outer Mongolia (which, according to the 1945 treaty, was to become an independent nation but which actually has long been swallowed by Russia...
...work on Herr Bueren's theory. The sun's corona does blaze at approximately 1,000,000° C., they conceded, but who can believe that the enormous heat is caused, as Herr Bueren also insisted, by cosmic particles striking the sun's outer atmosphere? Why shouldn't the same particles bombard the earth and set it glowing? And did Herr Bueren really believe that sunspots are gaping holes in the sun's shell, opening on to a cool black core where plant life changes heat into chemical energy, thus lowering the temperature? Pure nonsense...
...Emperor's Clothes (by George Tabori) is theatrically an in-&-outer and artistically a might-have-been. Playwright Tabori (Flight Into Egypt) has yoked a fascinating idea for a play to a good deal more familiar one, and the two neither run very well in harness nor altogether keep to the road. Tabori's scene is Budapest in 1930; his atmosphere that of an incipient police state; his chief characters a small boy (Brandon de Wilde) and his father (Lee J. Cobb). The boy inhabits a mental world swarming with such heroes as Sherlock Holmes, Hoot Gibson...
Reid's own getaway was a masterpiece of timing, meticulous preparation and sheer nerve. In & out of windows, over roofs, dashing for cover when sentries made their turns, and so out through a flue, Reid and three companions reached the outer wall and let themselves down on a rope of sheets. Using forged identity cards made by prisoner experts, and equipped with civilian clothes, a memorized map and German learned at Colditz, Reid and one of his pals made good progress through Germany...