Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GARDEN by Julia Berrall. 388 pages. Viking. $15. An illustrated history of gardening from the time of the Pharaohs to the present day (see cut, opening page). It is full of odd nuggets of information, from the fact that ladies of the Middle Ages often bathed nude before guests in their gardens to the date of the first modern lawn mower: 1830. Fine reading for soil-sports...
...assembly-line plant on the site. Then the units, averaging 80 tons apiece, are crane-hoisted into position like gargantuan building blocks. When the project is finished, more than 30 fully furnished houses, with from one to four bedrooms, are scheduled to go on display. The other 120-odd are already being rented at a fast pace as showrooms or living space by governments, corporations and individuals for the six-month run of the fair...
...textbook explanation to practical application. They are building fluid circuits that supplement and even replace some electronic devices. By controlling and amplifying the flow of fluids (either gases or liquids), just as electron flow is controlled and amplified in electronic circuits, they have conjured up a variety of odd new fluidic devices that offer valuable improvements on their electronic counterparts...
...John F. Kennedy in historical perspective and from that vantage point Alsop decides that Kennedy was a great President. His reasons: Kennedy made the nuclear deterrent credible, and he made clear the social and economic problems that face the U.S. For a third criterion of greatness, Alsop offers an odd suggestion: "As far as nature will permit young American males now brush thei: hair forward and out, in a sort of prow to make it look as much like John Kennedy's hair as possible...
...thing that 190 million Americans missed this year by not belonging to the Odd Fellows of New York, the American Society of Abdominal Surgeons or the Temple of St. Louis Moolah Shriners was an extraordinarily inexpensive vacation. As "affinity" groups, under Civil Aeronautics Board rules, they and scores of similar organizations can - and have - chartered jets for overseas junkets at fares far below the usual. Before long, under a new plan announced last week by Pan American World Airways, just about any non-fellow may be able to do as well...