Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...odd thing was that nothing very unexpected happened in the last half of the race. Art the two mile mark it was Wilson, Reider, and Hogen in that order, after three miles it was Reider, Wilson, and Hogen. With a strong last push Hogen barely managed to push himself past Wilson, but he never even came close to Reider...
...news-gathering expenses he has kept a tight hold. For example, when the worst forest fires in 30 years broke out in California this fall, Chronicle staffers covered the story by telephone for the first three days. Finally Thieriot okayed the expense of sending one reporter-photographer team 200-odd miles to the Sequoia National Park, but by then the fire was almost out. While he gives editors a free hand at assigning stories, Thieriot makes the decision "if we are going to rent an airplane, or something of that nature." Though such penny-pinching is hard on staff morale...
...Aerobee rocket soared up last week from Holloman Air Force Base, N. Mex. carrying an odd pay load. Inside its nose were two heavy steel cylinders containing thermite* and 2 lbs. each of metallic sodium. The rocket took off 20 minutes after sunset. When it reached 40 miles and had disappeared from sight, automatic instruments ignited the thermite in the cylinders. The sodium vaporized, jetting out of a hole in the rocket's nose, and a brilliant orange-colored trail appeared against the blue sky. This was the sodium; it picked up the light of the sun, still shining...
...enjoy this glorious distinction of seeming too lifelike to have sprung from an inkwell. Like Robinson Crusoe, they have often been modeled on real people. Now Irving Wallace, a Hollywood scenarist with a yen for bizarre personalities, has had the bright idea of telling the life stories of 20-odd famed originals. Among them...
...appears to be sailing-Latin for the 300 miles of Chinese coast that lie between Amoy and Hong Kong, and through it, in this picture, an entire Chinese village of 180 souls flees from Communist tyranny to democratic freedom in "the most daring mass escape of modern times." The odd odyssey is made in a grubby old wood-burning sternwheeler, built in 1885 and capable of six knots in a following wind. Her captain is a Yank (John Wayne) whom the village elders have sprung from a Communist brain lavatory. Resisting psychological detergents in a unique way, ex-Prisoner Wayne...