Word: thing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...question was Polish-born George Adamski, 68, who until several years ago ran a humble hamburger stand at the foot of California's Palomar mountain. Then one day he happened to meet a courteous and high-domed gentleman, and the gentleman was from the planet Venus. One thing led to another, and some time later a man from Mars and another from Saturn asked him in a hotel lobby if he would like to take a spin in space. The trip aloft included refreshments ("a small glass of colorless liquid") with an "incredibly lovely" blonde named Kalna...
Without wasting a minute, George tipped off a London newspaper. When the news hit The Hague, the court hit the ceiling: the whole thing was too reminiscent of the Queen's strange attachment for Greet Hofmans, the faith healer who became a sort of a nuisance in the palace (TIME, June 25, 1956). Unable to dissuade the Queen from granting the audience, her advisers hit upon a scheme that at least might assure the nation that she would not succumb to any spell again. It surrounded her with a protective guard of some of the nation...
...long, a hundred yards wide, and five stories tall!" he says, eyes glittering. At the other end of the weight scale, he is also starting new works in aluminum and balsa wood. "Why not?" he asks. "Anything can be sculpture, even air in balloons. The form is the main thing...
...reader who picks up a book on, say, unidentified flying objects, knows that he is not going to be told, on the first page, that flying saucers are imaginary. The author has an advance from his publisher, and he is going to see the thing through, complete with wiring diagrams and interviews with little green men. The case of the beatniks is similar; the unwashed T shirts are tangible enough, but is there anything new, socio-religio-artistically speaking, inside them? The author of this Baedeker to Beatland says, naturally, that there is. The barbarians, he reports, are within...
...gonna lie anyway, why is it so borin'?" At eleven, Horatio knew "the local civics of the vice squad ... In architecture, how to make time bombs; in interpersonal relations, how to make zip guns ... In philosophy he knew that the Future Lies Ahead of Us, yet-alas-One Thing Leads to Another...