Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ODD COUPLE. Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon have a marvelous time picking and raging at each other in this stage-bound adaptation of Neil Simon's Broadway comedy about two badly matched buddies who try to help each other through the traumas of divorce...
NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY, 1968. After being kicked around for ten years, the idea was finally approved at the Johnson-Kosygin summit in Glassboro, N.J., a year ago. The resulting treaty, worked out in Geneva, commits the signing nations (60-odd, so far) to the historic agreement. Nations without nuclear weapons will not produce or receive them in the future from the present nuclear powers. The pact also promises have-nots the full peaceful benefits of the atom, while committing the nuclear powers to move forward toward effective arms limitation and disarmament. France and Red China refused to sign...
...odd melodrama sounded like an excerpt from one of Tennessee Wiliams' own plays. "I am in a net of con men," read the hastily scrawled letter the playwright had written to his brother Dakin. "If anything of a violent nature happens to me, it will not be a case of suicide, as it would be made to appear." That sounded ominous, and everybody grew more worried when Williams disappeared from his Manhattan apartment. Reporters finally located him last week at his house in Key West, refusing to talk about anything. "He must have had a bad scare," judged Dakin...
After speaking for tighter gun-control laws during an evening talk show on Manhattan's educational TV station WNDT, former Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., 46, was strolling out of the studio when an unscheduled interruption blared from the monitor. A flock of 20-odd not-so-gentle love children suddenly burst into the studio, pummeled the guards, twisted the director's arm, and took over the program, shouting slogans and obscenities while the cameras still looked on. The mayhem did not end until Manhattan's police, doing their own thing, arrived and collared the unruly invaders...
...connection with the audience or her fellow players. As an oversated movie-star seducer, Walter Matthau-unglamorous, unamorous and unfunny -galumphs around with his shirt off, revealing a physique as saggy as the script. A busy actor these days, Matthau also stars in a current box-office hit, The Odd Couple (TIME, May 3). Thus, in a single season, he has touched the top and scraped the bottom...