Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unique features of the building, designed by Harry Weese & Associates, will be double-decked elevators, designed to end rush-hour jams. Coming to work, staff members will be able to enter the lower or upper section of the cars from different lobby levels, depending on whether they work on odd-or even-numbered floors. Once at work, they will be protected from extreme fluctuations of exterior light or heat by deep gold glass mirrored to keep out most solar rays. This will also create a one-way view out during the day, while at night, bright interior illumination will permit...
...states and cities. He concedes that much of his domestic legislation has turned into a programmatic and bureaucratic nightmare that we frankly must face up to. Johnson has diffused certain federal powers to a wider extent than is generally recognized in the poverty war, with its 1,000-odd community-action programs; in the landmark Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which encourages innovation by individual schools; in the air-and water-pollution-control acts, with their call for state-conceived programs; and in the model-cities bill, which leaves it to the mayors to tie together some 200 different federal...
...election time, 1960, John Kennedy had traveled 44,000 miles and made 400-odd speeches in 45 states to win the White House, at a reported cost to his party of $11 million-excluding his own unreported costs. In 1964, total reported campaign costs were almost $50 million-more than double the price of 1952. On primaries alone, Loser Nelson Rockefeller personally shelled out nearly $5,000,000. The 1968 money competition may be fiercer. In the New Hampshire primary, presidential hopefuls may drop...
Dahomey, the birthplace of voodoo, undergoes a peculiar seasonal ritual. Ever since it gained independence from France in 1960, the tiny country of 2,300,000 people has regularly tossed out its government during the pre-Christmas season in odd-numbered years. Usually, the man who has served as chief bouncer is a general named Christophe Soglo, 58. Last week, right on schedule, Dahomey had its fourth coup in seven years. This time, it was a total surprise to Soglo, who was himself thrown out as President by a junta of his younger army subordinates...
Based upon a number of Lofting books, the movie begins when Dolittle is just a plain, ordinary people doctor. One day he learns to talk to animals, and thereafter his odd behavior tries his patients, who would like to see him committed to Her Majesty's asylum. With the help of his animal chums, he breaks away and sails on the good ship Flounder in search of the Great Pink Sea Snail. On board his overloaded ark are an Irish cat-food seller (Anthony Newley), a small boy (William Dix), and a pretty admirer (Samantha Eggar). All too soon...