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There are few phenomena in sports more inexplicable than a slump. Harvard's collapse seemed particularly perplexing because it came immediately after 30 minutes of outstanding play...
...have seen this report. It is a confused, biased account, put together by a group of sincere believers in the reality of flying saucers from outer space. This group, the National Investigative Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), has tried for years, unsuccessfully, to get Congress to investigate the U.S. Air Force. The object of the hearings would be to have the Air Force publicly admit what they supposedly have known all along, that these "weird machines" really exist and that the military has suppressed this information because the public is not prepared for so staggering a revelation...
...have spent some time studying these phenomena. I have written two books on the subject, the first, Flying Saucers, was published by the Harvard University Press in 1953. The second, The World of Flying Saucers, with Lyle Boyd as co-author and published by Doubleday, came out just last year...
...sermon by telling a few mild, clerical jokes and asking the congregation to take a deep, tension-easing breath: "Relax-give yourself over to God." Like Norman Vincent Peale, he spends more time analyzing modern ills than expounding theology, his chatty sermons are lightened by references to such contemporary phenomena as booing cricket umpires, which he deplores, and cosmetics, which he endorses ("God made women beautiful, and they should develop this talent"). When he recently took his text from the Sermon on the Mountain"Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth"-Powell turned it into a homily...
...National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), Headquarters, 1536 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. Washington 36, D.C., has just recently published its long awaited "The UFO Evidence" Report. This illustrated, fully documented 184-page Report, containing over 200,00 words, is the result of identified Flying Objects (UFOs) and proves, beyond any reasonable doubt, that UFOs are unknown superior machines under intelligent control, emanating from an extra-terrestrial source, and official secrecy on same. It is hoped that this Report, a copy of which has been presented to every Member of Congress, will instigate open Congressional hearings on UFOs...