Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kissinger's outburst caught the world by surprise. It was odd for a diplomat who prides himself on his reserves of humor and self-control to indulge in such a public baring of his anger and frustration. And it left startled observers wondering whether the pervasive suspicions spawned by Watergate would finally claim the best and brightest the Administration had to offer...
Thus there was an odd ring to Kissinger's petulant suggestion at Salzburg that he had been getting a raw deal over his role in wiretaps (see THE NATION). Until the issue is settled, the only incontrovertible fact in the affair is that it has prompted open questioning of how the press has handled the supersecretary. Says Investigative Reporter Seymour Hersh, whose New York Times story on the taps fanned Kissinger's wrath: "I don't think Kissinger has been subject to the same scrutiny that other officials have. I think he should be treated the same...
...environmental agency will require an additional 10,000 stations in sparsely populated areas to offer unleaded fuel, and predicts that most smaller outlets for major oil companies will take on the new gas voluntarily. Altogether, the EPA estimates that in only 41 of the nation's 3,000-odd counties will motorists have to drive more than a few miles to find unleaded gas. Agency officials also note that 300,000 small nozzles have already been produced and are in wide distribution. In a pinch, any stations that cannot get the small nozzles can pump the new fuel through...
...quietly in the volumes of his work. But each summer he thunders and chuckles in festivals from the Spokane Expo to Central Park. For those sun-flooded weeks, the Swan of Avon returns to the group for whom he really wrote - the audience. This year, as in the 370-odd before, that audience will find whatever it seeks in the ceaselessly contemporary productions...
More Immune. It is scandalous to Mrs. Shaw (Katherine Squire) that Andrew (Stanley Anderson), the firebrand, should have ditched his law career to be come an abstract painter. Why has Steven (Philip Charles MacKenzie), the youngest, with his odd, pervasive silence, quit work on his incisive book about modern society? Colin (Paul Collins), the brother in industrial relations, pleas es his mother mightily by announcing.a forthcoming marriage. Consider his rea son: "It's just less embarrassing to be married than...