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...oddest Masters in years. Complaining that the grass on Augusta's fairways was too high. Player shot a first-round 75 and never got back into contention. Palmer had all kinds of trouble with his putter and the par-five 13th hole. And Nicklaus? Playing like any duffer, he staggered through a second-round 79, missed the 36-hole cut, and joined the spectators-staying around the last two days only to perform the formality of helping the new champion into his winner's blazer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: Positively | 4/21/1967 | See Source »

April, la saison des amours for wild life in France, inevitably brings out the bird watchers. Last week one of the oddest sights in the fields and forests was a stocky, monkish fellow in a Basque beret and rimless glasses, cocking an ear to all the amorous twittering, and furiously scribbling music on manuscript paper clipped to a board. It was French Composer Olivier Messiaen, 58, elder statesman of the far-out realm of 20th century music, gathering new themes for his compositions. "Birds are the greatest musicians," he insists. "You will never find in their song a mistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Composers: Backward Revolutionary | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

...scheme when Mostel reveals he knows about his collection of pornographic pottery ("None of us is perfect"). Standing out among the numerous other good roles is Buster Keaton as the old Roman who's been searching for his long lost children and keeps running through the film at the oddest moments. His face is almost as comically expressive as Mostel's. When, not hearing correctly, he says Yiddish fashion, "My daughter--a eunuch?" it becomes the best line in the film...

Author: By Joseph A. Kanon, | Title: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | 1/17/1967 | See Source »

...many of the issues merely cluttered up the ballot. In one of the oddest measures to appear on any ballot, the citizens of Dearborn, Mich., deliberated on whether the U.S. should pull out of Viet Nam. A majority-56.5%-gravely declared against unilateral withdrawal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Propositions: Confusing Clutter | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

...crime for a married couple to receive nude photographs of themselves in the U.S. mail? Last week that question got the Supreme Court involved in one of its oddest obscenity decisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supreme Court: Naked in Nashville | 6/3/1966 | See Source »

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