Word: mankin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should really bug the True Believers. In a report in the journal Applied Optics, two U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists offer an earthly explanation not only for the Utah UFOS but possibly for many others as well. Reading Salisbury's book, Entomologist Philip S. Callahan and his associate, R.W. Mankin, were struck by the similarity between the movements of the UFOS and the actions of insect swarms. Their conclusion, after some painstaking research: the Utah objects were probably moths known as spruce budworms, illuminated by a common atmospheric phenomenon known as St. Elmo's fire...
...test whether insects could also be set aglow, Callahan and Mankin in their lab generated electric fields comparable to those produced during storms. They then confined within the fields several species of insects, including predatory stinkbugs and spruce budworms. The results were invariably the same: the bugs, consisting, as the scientists note, of an excellent dielectric (the exoskeleton) surrounding an electrolyte (the body fluids), displayed brilliantly colored flares from such external points as their antennae, leg joints and jaws. Write Callahan and Mankin: "There is absolutely no doubt that, given the right weather conditions, nature can produce a high enough...
...April 25 at the School of Contemporary Music, Kushnik will accompany singer Jeannie Lieberman in four of his songs set to the words of poets Daniel Dern, Gary Mankin, Lewis MacNeice and Sir Walter Raliegh. Lieberman will also sing both her own compositions and those of Rich Johnson, who will accompany her on guitar...
...ghost of one of Alonzo Stagg's old foes?" I wondered, somewhat startled. I slapped myself on the side of the head. It was only Dave Mankin, who lived down the hall...