Word: curiouser
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Richard Nixon is underwhelming Europe, and the Europeans seem rather grateful," reported TIME Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey, who accompanied the President on his tour. "In a curious way, his strength was that he was so much himself. He was plainly not quite relaxed in the midst of ceremony, even the modest amount included in this trip. If there was not charm, there was simplicity. If there was not sophistication, there was common sense and decency. He created no jealousies, taxed no one's ingenuity. He was a little clumsy but sincere, a little uncertain but determined...
...four-power European economic directorate that would replace the Common Market. His reported price: that Britain withdraw from NATO, as France in effect has already done. London and Paris started a shouting match over whether or not De Gaulle had actually made such a proposal?and the curious case caused a new outbreak of Anglo-French hostility (see box following page). True or false?or, more likely, a bit of each?the affair was bound to embarrass the President by highlighting the rifts that still rend Europe...
Although sexual promiscuity is its membership fee, the groupie subsociety has its own curious moral code. It has even developed class strata of sorts. At the bottom are such aberrant types as "the Plaster Casters," a pair of young Chicago fetishists who, as their name implies, have a peculiar hobby. They make plaster casts of rock stars' anatomies-certain parts of their anatomies, that is. Only slightly higher on the social scale are the "kiss and tell" groupies, who collect and trade the names of their conquests-often falsely...
Today, however, progress and urban renewal have doomed this curious form of nonsociety to extinction. From a Depression-era high of more than 1,000,-000, the national census of rootless men (and women) has dropped to a scant 100,000, most of them over 50. On the Bowery, a squalid mile-long stretch on Manhattan's Lower East Side bordered by wine dispensaries, flop houses and rescue missions, annual head counts of the residents have disclosed a steady attrition. Between 1949 and 1967, the population of the Bowery fell from 13,675 to 4,851. Every year...
...vigorously applauded, exiles from Greece were sympathetically received, and representatives from 34 other na tions were recognized. But then, for the 1,041 delegates and 4,000 observers in Bologna's overheated sports arena, the ritual ended. Secretary-General Luigi Longo, 68, signaled the change with some curious additions to and omissions from his four-hour keynote speech. He praised, of all people, Pope Paul VI, say ing that he entirely agreed with the Pope's view that too much of the West's economy was based on profit motives rather than social obligation...