Word: sauceritis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force has been so bedeviled by reports of flying saucers (the little-men-from-Venus kind) that it is almost afraid to talk about saucer-shaped aircraft. Last week Secretary of the Air Force Donald A. Quarles released a few well-guarded words about a vertically rising jet-craft that will soon be tested by Ryan Aeronautical Co. of San Diego. He admitted that it might be mistaken for some sort of flying saucer...
...local contestants: both make Ankles Away a triumph. The Buccaneer, Sandy Wilson's follow-up to The Boyfriend, concerns a wholesome boys' magzine and the competition from American comics. Salad Days, produced by the Bristol Old Vic who should know better, follows a young couple's escapades with flying saucers and a magical piano. Both the plots are thin, music routine, and puns atrocious. ("What shall I wear on a flying saucer?" "A tea gown, of course...
Last month an unprecedented cloudburst filled Bicycle Lake to the depth of 18 inches in its deepest place. For a while the lake was a saucer of muddy water. Then, Army tank men from nearby Camp Irwin saw the water come to life, seething with millions of wiggly things. They found it swarming with four kinds of shrimp, some of which swam upside down. Others had hard, smooth shells and looked like tiny clams...
...minute scenic tour of Monument Valley, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Balboa Bay, had the sensation of looking out of the same car or boat that the eleven-camera unit had worked from. The sense of motion was impressive. Said Daily Variety: "Like riding in a flying saucer...
...Earth (Universal) stays earthbound just a little too long as Scientist Rex Reason grows increasingly suspicious of a house party thrown by Jeff Morrow, an eggheaded visitor from outer space. But when Rex and his beautiful fellow scientist Faith Domergue try to escape, they are scooped into a flying saucer and whizzed off to the planet of Metaluna to help their hard-pressed host fight off some neighboring spacemen. The interplanetary war that follows has Metaluna looking like a giant pinball machine screaming "Tilt!" in seven different colors. What with dodging flaming meteors and grappling with odious mutants (half-human...