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...oddest marker of all can be found near the City Hospital on Mt. Auburn St., an inconspicuous tablet that reads: "ON THIS SPOT IN THE YEAR 1000 LEIF ERICKSON BUILT HIS HOUSE IN VINELAND." The stone was placed on the left bank of the Charles in the 1880s by Eben Norton Horsford, then Rumford Professor of History Emeritus. His painstaking research led him to believe that the Northmen were familiar with Boston Harbor and the Charles, and that Cambridge was Vineland itself...
...killing. The facts are arresting enough: Gregory Powell, an ex-con, and Jimmy Smith, a gun-shy black junkie looking for a fast buck and a quick escape from his "batty" accomplice, wheeled off on a stickup spree−and kept getting lost somewhere among the freeways. This oddest of couples−Powell wearing a joke-shop disguise, Smith petrified that the pistol stuck in his belt might go off and destroy his manhood−made one U-turn too many and were stopped by a pair of plainclothesmen...
...stop the actual bombing, of course. Nor was Douglas' action much of a legal landmark, since it was overturned later the same day by one of his colleagues, with the backing of the other members of the Supreme Court. Nonetheless, it was the latest and certainly the oddest of a growing number of battles between the Nixon Administration and both the Legislative and Judicial Branches of the Federal Government, the most historic of which is over Nixon's tapes and documents (see following story...
...Ruski Boulevard, in the heart of the Bulgarian capital of Sofia, looms one of the oddest monuments in the Communist world: a huge equestrian statue of Alexander II, Czar of All the Russias from 1855 to 1881. While Moscow abounds with likenesses of Lenin and Peking with those of Mao, Sofia has chosen to preserve an image of the Emperor who helped liberate Bulgaria from Turkish rule in 1878. The Bulgarians still feel that they owe a historic debt of gratitude to Russia's rulers...
...hour of day or night the summons may come. Then the young Nisei from California must trudge down to the waterfront in Japan and pitch in at one of the world's oddest jobs: measuring dead whales. "When the mountainous carcasses are cut up, the stench is stifling," says Lawrence Tsunoda, 28, a marine mammalogist from San Diego. "As for the pools of blood, well...