Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more aware of the contrast between judicial precaution and penal carelessness than Chief Justice Warren Burger. Some find Burger's vehemence on the subject rather odd; he is often seen as a strict law-and-order jurist whom President Nixon appointed to lead the nation's highest bench away from the liberalism of the Warren court. In fact, Burger is a vocal advocate of reforming the penal system to stress rehabilitation rather than revenge. Last week he reaffirmed his concern with prison reform in two tough speeches-to the Association of the Bar of the City...
...still No. 3 but gaining (it lags 20% behind CBS)-has yet to settle its 1970-71 plans. Only certainties so far are professional football games on Monday nights during the fall and two new sitcoms: one based on Neil Simon's The Odd Couple and starring Jack Klugman and Tony Randall, the other reviving Danny Thomas and titled Make Room for Granddaddy...
Lurking Spies. Outrage became an ecological crusade when some of the people who were exposed to the spray began to have odd complaints. Mrs. Willard Shoecraft, about 50, suffered chest pains, shortness of breath, repeated vaginal bleeding and numbness of her hands and legs. Robert McCray, 33, had some of the same symptoms; his infant son nearly died. At least half a dozen other families experienced stomach upsets after the spraying. Robert McKusick, 39, says that 60% of the kids in his small goat herd have been born dead or deformed in the past two years...
...investigators of being impostors, really representatives of chemical manufacturers in clever disguise. The real Dr. Epstein, they said, had died six years ago. To look further into the mystery, eight Government scientists left for Globe early this week. So far, only one thing seems clear: environmental concern can do odd things to some people's minds...
...honored. Beyond all precedent, Richard Nixon is giving Painter Andrew Wyeth a one-man show in the nation's grandest gallery-the White House. To celebrate the event, Nixon is holding a formal banquet in honor of the Wyeths, topped by a reception at which the 200-odd guests will be entertained by Pianist Rudolf Serkin in the white and gold splendors of the East Room, where 22 of Wyeth's paintings will be on display. In the Nixonian view, artists in the past have been invited to the White House, as it were, to sing for their...