Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME notes that "oddity" that "many of those who are attacking Johnson for not having resorted to force at once in the Mideast are those who attack him most bitterly for having used force at all in Viet Nam" [lune 9]. What is so odd about a philosophy that advocates use of U.S. power only when the nation requesting our assistance can clearly demonstrate its own solid commitment to fight for the right to exist and to be free? If the South Vietnamese showed the kind of determination and willingness to defend their country that the Israelis have shown...
...Odd Hook. The sponsors of the state's pro-Daylight Saving drive were aware of an odd hook sometimes found in referendum laws. By petitioning for a referendum on a newly enacted law, a mere 5% of Michigan's voters can nullify that law until the next general election, which in this case will be in 1968. Only 274 more people than the required minimum-123,096 out of the nearly 2,500,000 who voted in the last statewide election-signed petitions, thereby suspending the anti-Daylight Saving law. Thus, for at least two summers, the fraction...
...Broadway, the Great Producer records not how a show played but whether it won or lost. By that criterion, the box-office score for the season now ending is seven hits, five others that stayed on long enough to break into the black, and 25-odd errors. That reckoning, disastrous as it sounds, is about standard for the '60s-and so was the season...
...companies - which, according to Variety, drew $32 million in 1965-66 and have never topped $40 million - pulled in $43.6 million this season. That does not count one other extension of the road. London this month is showing no fewer than seven U.S. imports, from Hello Dolly! to The Odd Couple, and Amer ica Hurrah will open there in August...
...home. He explained that he had driven his son's Volkswagen 300 miles to Las Vegas the night of the murders. At the time of the killings, Kirschke said, he had been en route to Las Vegas to address a Rotary convention. Witnesses backed his story. The only odd aspect to the case was that his own Karmann-Ghia had been found in running condition at the Los Angeles airport. That, said Kirschke, only solved another mystery. He had given the car to a mechanic to fix weeks before, and the mechanic had disappeared with...