Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...raises for the University's 4000-odd clerical and technical workers are substantial, apace with the inflation rate, and they come at a time of intense unionization efforts among the workers who will get the raises...
...year-old Norwegian maid, her employers, the Nelson Rockefellers, were very odd. One night, when they were late, she left dinner on the stove and went off to a party in Brooklyn. Next day Nelson's first wife, Mary Clark Rockefeller, demonstrated the helplessness of the very rich. "AnneMarie, what happened to you last night? I had to take my husband to Hamburg Heaven." That was only the beginning, as Anne-Marie Rasmussen reveals in her autobiography There Was Once a Time. Contrary to the American Dream, Second Son Steven had no sooner married her in 1959 than they...
Remember Fischer fever? Mild nausea, mottled fury, odd sensations of Russophilia, night sweats about poisoned pawns. Get set for a new and more severe epidemic. In 1972 the delirium was nourished by a prize fund of $250,000, twelve times greater than any previous chess purse. In 1975 the provender is grotesquely more substantial. Bobby Fischer and Anatoly Karpov, the 23-year-old Russian challenger for the World Chess Championship, have been invited by the Philippine Islands to meet in Manila on June 1 and push little wooden soldiers round a checkered board for the second largest stakes...
...This odd bit of insect behavior was discovered by James E. Lloyd, an entomologist at the University of Florida in Gainesville. While studying fireflies on the ground or in low vegetation in the university's biological preserve at Gainesville, Lloyd watched male fireflies on the wing emitting light signals. These varied in number, rate and duration from one species to another, as did the responses of the females perched on shrubbery below. Using a pocket flashlight, Lloyd learned to imitate the signals of various species. He soon discovered that when he gave the mating flash of a male Photinus...
HARVARD AGAIN last week reaffirmed its opposition to the idea of a labor union for the 800-odd clerical and technical employees in the medical area, saying again that the only union the medical area employees could join would be a University wide one. A medical area organizing committee that has the support of most medical area clerical workers will file for a union forming election this months, and Harvard's opposition could severely hamper or even kill the group's unionizing effort...