Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dubuffet for 20 years. His art is marked by eccentricity and a sparkling imagination. With wash and wallpaper he wraps strange figures in startling ambiguity: one picture suggests both the Crucifixion and a scarecrow. In one room eight of his skinny wooden totems stand around and stare from odd, misshapen faces. Through June...
...days of Judiciary Committee hearings, the bill was debated for nine days, then passed by the House 290 to 130. On March 26, the Senate voted to take up the bill, has been debating it steadily since March 30. During the last three weeks, Dirksen, who insisted on 50-odd amendments in return for precious G.O.P. votes in invoking cloture against the Southern filibuster (see box), was "beating out the iron upon the anvil of discussion" in conferences with other Republicans, Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey, and Attorney General Robert Kennedy. The fruit of their endeavors was what...
...design and construction of deep-diving submarines capable of exploring the bottom and doing useful work at extreme depths. And in response to the growing demand from both Government and industry, the drawing boards of the nation's naval architects are producing a fleet of small, odd-looking submarines, most of them aimed at great depths...
...Turtle, Lockheed's odd-looking entry, is lens-shaped to allow it to scoot along the bottom like a flounder. After experiments with a small, self-propelled model, Designer Willy Fiedler decided that the lenticular shape, made of two strong metal saucers joined at their edges, is the best for the moderately deep ocean. It will resist pressure and have more maneuverability than a sphere. Dr. Fiedler hopes to use it to spy on fish and learn to catch them cheaply. It can repair damaged cables and bury radioactive wastes in the ocean bottom. Lockheed has high hopes...
...Element to Another. The need for places to fly is planting the land with resorts that offer airborne tourists various versions of sporting life and change of scene. There are currently 400-odd of them-about a quarter located on a body of water-enabling landlocked air families to transfer from one element to another within minutes after touching down...