Word: saucer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pentagon is talking about who originated the idea. But somehow, back in 1968, the Navy began experimenting with those saucer-shaped toys called Frisbees, ostensibly to find a better way to keep flares aloft. Last week, after spending $375,000 on the Frisbee project, the Navy admitted that it was a flop...
...table at anyone who might offer a contradiction. Charles has to romp about the estate in knickers, but takes some solace in sculpting huge, brooding Olympian figures. Helene is something of a stiff, a quality convincingly conveyed by Miss Jobert, who shuffles through the film in a state of saucer-eyed rigor mortis...
...physics student, loses a leg in an unlikely series of events. Disconsolate, he becomes a hitchhiker. For ten years he lives on the random kindness of motorists, until his old mentor, Professor Melville, contacts him with an ambitious proposal. The prof wants to launch Arthur in a modest flying saucer and return him to earth as an interplanetary proselytizer for a new philosophy known as Unteleology. It disclaims any overriding purpose or plan in the universe and urges people to stop worrying because nothing is going anywhere...
...feverishly at night (he practically existed on café au lait), sleeping during the day (with the aid of veronal), Proust rarely left his bed in a cork-lined Paris room during the last 15 years of his life. On Aunt Elisabeth's bedside table, gracing her tea saucer, is one of Mme. Benoist's madeleines, carefully wrapped in plastic and replaced every few days...
...often made by reputable observers, including scientists and technicians. Says he: "It is a gross but popular misconception that UFO reports spring from 'ding-a-lings.' " Nonetheless, he admits that there is at least one established scientist who has not yet seen-or reported-his first flying saucer: J. Allen Hynek...