Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...students remain notably unenthusiastic about Perón, which makes his watchful cops highly suspicious of them. Last October the police banned a routine social gathering of University of Buenos Aires engineering students, thereby touching off a student strike that spread to Argentina's other universities. Upshot: 250-odd student leaders landed in jail. Perón & Co. let 150 of them out during February and March, hinted that the rest would be released before the beginning of the new academic year in April (TIME, Feb. 21). Allowing the universities to open with 104 students still in jail would...
...intimate possessions-a wooden crucifix, a picture of the Virgin, a slide projector, a gaudy spittoon, books entitled Social Justice and Thought of Gandhi. Before him on a shabby desk lay an ultimatum, a blunt threat to tear down the government of South Viet Nam. An odd procession passed in and out of the palace doors for hours on end to deal with the crisis-three of the man's brothers, one in the cloth of a Roman Catholic bishop; his beautiful, politics-minded sister-in-law; U.S. diplomats and U.S. military officers in mufti; eye-rubbing ministers...
Masterworks of art. once out of the artist's studio, are often launched on mysterious and perilous careers. Altered out of recognition, tucked away in vaults. revered and then forgotten in dark church recesses, they have a way of dropping from sight, unexpectedly turning up in odd places. Last week two rediscoveries and one disappearance made art news...
...Oedipus: he cannot escape from life with mother. Aged Miranda is seeking to hire a companion because she thinks it is time for her elderly son to stop following her around. But the Fates know that neither mother nor son has any intention of separating. For 20-odd years, for example, Rosebery has let his mother sweeten his tea with "generous lumps," simply because he knows it makes her happy and he has not had the heart to break it to her that he has lost his taste for sugar. The rest of the household lump it more grudgingly: they...
...International Activities Committee of the Council is currently interviewing the 800-odd foreign students here to determine their satisfaction with the University, Stefan S. Anderson '56, committee chairman, announced in a preliminary report. The survey is part of a project, undertaken in cooperation with the Foreign Students Office to consider the adequacy of the University's services for foreign students...