Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cold spells, power failures. This week Parliament reconvenes, and the minor grievances at home will provide the Tories with fresh ammunition. This week, too, voters in Hull go to the polls in a by-election for a seat won by Labor the last time by a scant 1,000-odd votes. The Tories have a fair chance of snatching it away-and reducing Wilson's parliamentary hold to a perilous majority...
Help Wanted. Growth is slowest in Britain, where stagnation and affluence continue to make an odd couple. London looks like the best-dressed city in Europe; saddlemakers and Savile Row tailors are backlogged with orders, and the average Briton feels that he is doing better than all right. Yet the island suffers from overfull employment (jobless rate: 1.4%), spiraling wages and sluggish productivity. To battle inflation and spur exports, Prime Minister Harold Wilson has sought to deflate domestic consumption by raising taxes and restricting credit. In 1965 the pound was thus defended and strengthened, and the trade gap was drastically...
...Alvero, a knight who has fought the Moors, assures the Queen that the earth is indeed round like a ball. The King, however, turns down Columbus on the grounds that 1) the earth is flat, and 2) Columbus is a Jew. Actually, Columbus was not Jewish, but for some odd reason Fast does not bother to enlighten the King or the reader...
Actually, few of the 2,000-odd paintings that are recognized Rubenses were totally done by his hand. He ran a well-organized factory with pupils and assistants who blocked out figures and filled in landscapes based on his sketches. Then Rubens would overpaint here and there, lending his master touch...
...Musica, a group of ten musicians whose performance of the 12th century Play of Daniel revived interest in the all but forgotten music composed during the five centuries before Bach; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Greenberg dressed his players in medieval garb and used original instruments, mostly odd-looking woodwinds with such names as zink, shawm and Rauschpfeife...