Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...peculiar," reported a Protestant physician. "Those on the hands and feet are square. On the backs of the hands and on the insteps they are dark and slightly hard. On the palms and the soles they are somewhat smaller and rather reddish in color, and are covered with a sort of transparent tissue. The wound in the left side is deep, and shaped like a long, narrow diamond. On the head under the hairline there are numerous small wounds, mostly circular in shape. On the back there are several crosswise reddish marks, rather like lash marks...
...offered multiple proof of man's incurable yearning for marvels. Near the top of the "nonfiction" section stood Immanuel Velikovsky's scientifically preposterous Worlds in Collision (astronomy based on hashed-up mythology). Close below was L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics (psychiatric home-treatment practiced as a sort of parlor game...
...More Denial. The present-day effectiveness of "military security" (e.g., during construction of the atom bomb) has made the public suspicious of all official denials. What sort of new, fantastic wonders may be concealed behind the denials? Modern air engines (turbojets, ramjets, rockets) are powerful enough to make almost anything fly. Disc-shaped helicopters with ramjets on their rotor edges are not impossible. They are not midget-manned space ships but their test flights might have provided a base for flying saucer reports...
...cast about desperately for some means of clearing the air. Actors' Equity condemned firings "without opportunity for refutation of damaging insinuations . . ." The American Federation of Radio Actors considered inviting "advertising agencies, sponsors and networks to sit down and try to arrive at some solution." One solution seemed some sort of informal "Loyalty Board." But the Authors' League of America, whose president is South Pacific's Oscar Hammerstein 2nd, denounced that solution as a "sorry plan for back-door censorship" and declared: "We do not believe in a little censorship, any more than in a large...
...Judge Kaufman "darted in, flushed and lively-eyed. He was a small neat man with a sort of Disney apprehensiveness. His big black bow tie came over the top of the bench and he squatted like a meditative black rabbit...