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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...
Monstrous Analysis. Quarles is well aware that flying-saucer cultists are not easily discouraged. They might still claim that saucer-shaped aircraft built on earth are proof that extraterrestrial flying saucers, manned by little men from Venus (or Mars), have been infesting the atmosphere. So Quarles released simultaneously a massive "analysis of reports of unidentified aerial objects." Called Project Blue Book and bristling with charts, diagrams, data sheets and tables of figures, it is a meticulous study of 4,965 flying-saucer "sightings...
Item: Cyprus (pop. 500,000), Venus' home island, promised to cause almost as much trouble as she had. The British, who run Cyprus, answered the demands of most Cypriots for union with Greece by promising a vague home-rule plan. This enraged the Turkish minority on the island. In sympathy, Turkish mobs rioted in Istanbul, and inflicted damage on their town estimated at ten times the value of the whole island of Cyprus (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...trumpets, a glitter of sequins and an outburst of romantic candles, television's most Spectacular season opened last week. NBC pronounced the summer prematurely over and raised the curtain on a season of high promise with a 90-minute version of the 1943 Broadway musical, One Touch of Venus. Janet Blair had the tiptoe grace required of a goddess awakened after slumbering for thousands of years in marble; Kurt Weill's pleasant music occasionally gave the show levitation; Russell Nype and George Gaynes struggled bravely against the shackling grasp of the heavyhanded plot. But Venus underlined the fact...
...from Underground. One way was by digging. In 1345 the citizens of Siena found a buried Roman statue of Venus, carried it in triumph through the streets and installed it in the city square. Venus smiled on the square for twelve years, during which Siena was visited by plague, civil war and invasion. At last, blaming her for the flood of troubles, the people superstitiously destroyed Venus and dumped her fragments on Florentine soil. Still, all over Italy the ice of ignorance was beginning to break up. Scholars were studying ancient manuscripts; artists found inspiration in classical art, with...