Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EVEN MET HAPPY GYPSIES. In all of this violent and tragic Yugoslav film, there is not a single happy gypsy, but despite many flaws and inconsistencies of style, it depicts in muted, melancholic color the odd, anachronistic ways of an all-but-forgotten people...
...charges true? The answer, in view of the dearth of scientific research, cannot yet be conclusive. But there is significant evidence in the history of marijuana during the hundred-odd years before 1967, when it was commonly prescribed for sedation, senile insomnia, menstrual disorders, epilepsy, severe neuralgia and migraine...
Elkins is one of 30-odd men so far who have bought Portatronic Systems Inc.'s new 19-lb. Portable Executive Telephone (PET), the first wireless, fully portable phone. "It's there when I need it," explains Elkins, who believes that it will come in particularly handy when he is driving rented cars or is on location for movies. "The phone is a serious business weapon for me," adds TV Program Packager Larry Spangler, who carries his briefcase phone everywhere, was glad that he did so recently when he received a long-distance call on an outdoor paddle...
...Philadelphia Athletics who became the Kansas City Athletics are now the Oakland Athletics and they still don't look very impressive. A fellow named Larry Shepard, pitching coach last year of the Philadelphia Phillies, is managing the Pittsburgh Pirates in place of Danny Murtaugh, and 30-odd other coaches have switched jobs. Yankee Manager Ralph Houk was crowing about the new faces on his ball club-six all told, with three in the starting line-up-and his new go-go offense...
...Parties. The suit was filed by a New York wholesale shoe salesman named Morton Eisen, who felt that he had been charged excessive brokerage fees for odd lots (less than 100 shares) of stock he had bought and sold. Nearly 99% of all U.S. odd-lot transactions go through two Wall Street firms, so Eisen had a convenient target for his suit. The firms were also vulnerable because the Securities and Exchange Commission had disclosed in 1963 that their virtual monopoly on odd-lot trading had led to abuses. Claiming that the abuses amounted to illegal price fixing, Eisen sued...