Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...formality had to be observed, even though the outcome was never in doubt. Last week 81,500-odd "Grand Electors" of France-deputies, senators, mayors, deputy mayors, municipal councilors-elected the first President of the Fifth Republic. There were three candidates: an obscure Communist mayor, a Sorbonne dean, and Charles de Gaulle...
Religious groups throughout the U.S. report some success with their continued campaign to "put Christ back into Christmas." Manufacturers are only too glad to help, but the results can be odd. Some of the items offered for sale...
Carleton is not without its own severe critics. Not long ago the faculty completed an assessment of the college, decided that the cherished 10.5-to-1 student-faculty ratio and 1,000-odd enrollment were wasteful. Result: by 1965, the ratio will be increased to 12.5-10-1 (students will do more independent studying), and the enrollment raised...
...year Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote South Pacific) Pat took off for Mills College near San Francisco. It seemed a safe distance from Cressy. She worked as a typist, did odd jobs at school, was a receptionist in a Chinese restaurant. She bounced on to Modesto Junior College, then to San Francisco City College and to San José State. She studied voice, biology, philosophy, art, art history, woodworking. During her two years at San José State she sang in a small nightclub on weekends, and she began to develop a style. Says Cartoonist Walt ("Pogo") Kelly...
Seldom in his 20-odd years in the ring had Archie taken such a pounding. Not until the fourth round did his head clear. Then he poked his darting left hand into Durelle's face, and kept it there through the rest of the fight. In the fifth, Archie ran into a roundhouse right, and fell again. But it was the last time. After that, every Durelle lunge seemed to land on an elbow or a hunched shoulder. Archie flicked jabs, pumped rights, and suddenly it was Durelle's head that snapped back after every flurry...