Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Modern Living and Sport. Their jobs involve hours of extra work. Don Morrison, our stringer at the University of Pennsylvania, is an extremely busy campus editor and honors student who admits that he is sometimes exasperated when students, faculty and administrators-not to mention TIME staffers-pester him at odd hours with queries, requests, suggestions and sometimes complaints about what TIME has said. How ever, his occasional chagrin disappears when a campus source, trying to put over an idea to TIME, will tell him, as one did recently: "See what you can do, Don. They listen to you there...
...yesteryear, the antiwar demonstrations that sizzled and, in most cases, fizzled from New York to San Francisco last week were downright duds. Only 400 marchers turned up under drizzly skies in Washington's Franklin Park, where their modest demeanor, punctuated with a scattering of McCarthy buttons, struck an odd contrast to the motley of the Pentagon marchers last October. Boston's 500 demonstrators scarcely disrupted the weekend traffic...
...student power soon came up against black power. Arguing that the white SDS insurgents in front of Coleman's office were not sufficiently militant, a group of 60-odd black students concluded that the whites should leave -and at 6 o'clock the next morning they did. Left in control of the building, the Negroes eventually released their three hostages-26 hours after they were first taken captive. A number of the whites had meanwhile moved on President Kirk's office-he was not there at the time-in nearby Low Library. One group broke down...
...Madison is the slop-happiest hero in history. In midsummer, Christmas stockings still hang over his hearth, and his refrigerator is cleaned so seldom that he has milk standing up in there without the bottle. And yet, as played by Walter Matthau, he is the better half of The Odd Couple...
...spread out the legal costs of the suit, Eisen brought it as a class action on behalf of all investors who have dealt in odd lots between 1960 and 1966 (the period covered by the statute of limitations). Since huge numbers of investors deal in odd lots, the number of potential parties to Eisen's suit was an estimated...