Word: venuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usual, investigators were quick to point out that there were many other reasonable explanations for the phenomena: ball lightning, the brilliance of Venus, now entering its brightest period, the breathtaking vision of the northern lights, and, with Sputniks 1 and 11 spinning aloft, the tendency of some imaginative people to go the Russians one better. Sighed the Air Force last week: in ten years, investigators have tabulated about 5,700 "sightings," accounted for all but 2% as being strictly natural, in an earthling sense...
Goody has conducted research on temperatures in the stratosphere, thermal equilibrium, and the spreading of heat in the atmosphere. He has also made studies of the atmosphere of Venus...
Despite a voice of limited range, the outstanding member of the supporting casts is Lee Jeffries, who slinks about the stage in a tight gold dress as a wonderfully seductive Venus. In the role of Orpheus, Harvey White demonstrates the triple talents of violinist (good enough for light opera), singer (the same) and actor (a little too strained for comedy). Anne Wallace, as Diana, has a strong voice but it is difficult to understand her. And James Greene, who plays Styx, demonstrates a somewhat limited acting ability but nevertheless distinguished himself through his pleasant voice...
President & Pleasant. Last October Harold decided it was about time to go back to Venus on business. A month later Berney's wife got some bad news in Washington. From Eagle Pass, Texas came a package containing some of Harold's personal effects and $300 in cash. With this was a letter from a Mr. Ucellus, of Venus. Harold, wrote Mr. Ucellus sorrowfully, had died on Venus. Pauline got the word, and she was worried. She wrote a letter to the President on the assumption that only high-ranking U.S. officials knew of the Modulator. Ike never replied...
Cosmic Con. Close by Mobile, Ala., and a long way from Venus, the FBI found Harold running a sign-painting business, arrested him for absconding with the Modulator investors' money, gathered the facts and handed them over to a federal grand jury. From what the FBI had to say, it was clear that Harold's "cosmic con" signaled the decline of such classic earth-bound dodges as the Gypsy Swindle, Pigeon-Drop, Sick Old Man and Handkerchief Switch. But Spaceman Berney, who has a long record of convictions for embezzlement and fraud, said there had been a terrible...