Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Schonfield has missed the point. The plot is much bigger than he realized; its magnitude must make us gasp with admiration. Think of the Madison Avenue techniques apparent in the show put on some 30-odd years earlier-finding out about the impending tax from "contacts" (the perfect excuse for a trip to Bethlehem), timing the conception of a boy child, setting the stage (the angels' choirs and star alone must have cost plenty). What seriousness of purpose, what singleness of thought to hold to for 33 years And finally, she even managed to have Him find someone...
...ODD COUPLE. One man's wife left him because he is a slob, the other man's because he's a nit-picking neatnik. The jilted men are surefire flops as roommates but roaring successes on Broadway...
When President Joseph Mobutu showed up in Leopoldville's King Baudouin Stadium for his first major public appearance last week, the 30,000 people on hand thought it odd that he was in informal khakis instead of his bemedaled full-dress general's uniform. There was a reason. Mobutu was there to urge his nation to get down to work. For five years, he claimed, politicians had "sacrificed the country for their own interests" and had brought it "hatred, quarrels and corruption." "The Congo no longer produces," he said, "the people no longer work...
...odd announcement to come at a corporate Christmas party, but Transamerica Corp. likes to do things differently. As the sound of Jingle Bells faded in a banquet room at San Francisco's Mark Hopkins Hotel, Chairman Horace W. Brower rose to address 80 of his top executives. Said Brower, 65, who is recuperating from major heart surgery: "I'm pulling out as chief executive Jan. 1. That will give me more time for fishing, for golf and the recovery of my health." With that, command of one of the nation's largest and least understood financial empires...
...majors reaching a sort of apex with the New York Highlanders in 1907, when he batted .182 and permitted the Washington Senators to steal 13 bases in one game. That was enough to convince Rickey that his talents were better suited to the front office. Over the next 50-odd years, with the St. Louis Browns, the St. Louis Cardinals, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Pittsburgh Pirates, he established himself as "the Mahatma," "the Brain," the brightest innovator, shrewdest trader and smartest judge of talent in the history of baseball...