Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Japanese call it-the grim, grey, high-walled Russian embassy, which squats on a hill in Tokyo's downtown section. From alleys that lead toward it, from the windows that overlook it, Japanese police and U.S. intelligence agents keep watch on the furtive comings & goings of its 30-odd Russian inhabitants. The missions of the Russians are not diplomatic; the Japanese have not recognized the embassy since 1951, when the Soviet Union refused to ratify the Japanese peace treaty...
Idaho's Republican Senator Henry C. Dworshak last week performed an odd trick: he passed himself on a merry-go-round. Just a few days before, Dworshak had shifted away from support of Hawaiian statehood unless it was coupled with statehood for Alaska. His switch produced an 8-to-7 vote by the Senate Interior Committee to report Hawaii and Alaska together. Dworshak thereby helped set up a combined target on the Senate floor for those who are 1) against Hawaiian statehood, 2) against Alaskan statehood, and 3) against statehood...
...California and had three children. There were a few minor disturbances, such as the time Romelle went to the hospital after swallowing 15 seconal tablets, but, in general, life seemed to be tranquil indeed-for Roosevelts. A month ago Jimmy filed a separation suit against Romelle. Then, with an odd sense of political timing, he announced that he would run for Congress this year...
Kenneth Lipstreu makes a living designing layouts for advertisements, paints in his spare time. His Transformer applies Picasso's cubist experiments of 40-odd years ago to the present-day industrial scene. Perhaps because it sticks to an established tradition of abstraction, his picture is much easier to take, and also to forget, than Motherwell...
...Crimson varsity hockey team's new-found depth more than offset Dartmouth's annual inspiration up at Hanover last Saturday. Playing with a reshuffled lineup, the varsity outfought and outlasted the Indians, 6 to 4, before 2,000-odd strictly partisan spectators...