Word: saucers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rarely are sociological ideas so rapidly translated from print into action, but then Transaction is no ordinary sociological publication. Written in brisk English, it examines such diverse material as mental hospitals, college sororities, and flying-saucer watchers. It was founded by Alvin W. Gouldner, 46, professor of sociology at St. Louis' Washington University, who was anxious to convey the findings of the social sciences to a wider public. Financed by the university, the magazine, which sells for 75?, has reached a circulation of 21,000; in November, it will convert from a bimonthly to a monthly...
Little Men. Incident at Exeter, by John G. Fuller, a columnist for the Saturday Review, is another saucer of flying fish. It simply records his interviews with witnesses at Exeter, N.H., after a glowing red object appeared over Route 150 at 2:24 a.m. on Sept. 3, 1965. Subsequently, Fuller himself saw such a UFO outside the town, and his report is that of a believer, or rather a convert. He writes in documentary style, following the grammar and non sequiturs of his tape recorder, and his work has the police-blotter awkwardness of one who wishes to convince...
...believes the contactees (those who claim to have actual contact with beings from outer space) are actually creating a new theology. "These extraterrestial visitors are benevolent, omnipotent, omniscient, and wear white robes. It seems I've seen them somewhere else.... Flying saucer myths are a clever compromise" between traditional theology and science...
...presented the other side of the case too: one man who claims he was in a flying saucer said the inside is lined with mother-of-pearl plastic, "like we put on toilet seats...
...next night, Manner's farm looked like a fairground. Saucer-seekers bearing telephoto lenses trooped to the swamp through driving rain. From the University of Michigan came a scientist who welcomed extraterrestrial visitors by flashing the universal equation of pi with his car headlights - three blinks, one blink, then four blinks. He got no response, to the loud chagrin of Renee Scott, 3, who came with her parents, ex pecting to see a spaceman with "green, yellow and orange-juice hair...