Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TREBLINKA, by Jean-Francois Steiner. Author Steiner's odd theories about the Jews have ignited controversy, but his dramatized version of the uprising by inmates at Poland's infamous concentration camp is icily restrained...
...with trustees or families. Some schools require the parents' written consent before children may attend the classes or lectures. But school systems with a diversity of religious groupings are launching experimental programs. New York City's begins next September, Chicago's started last winter, and 400-odd others are under way. This year, for the first time, the Federal Government is awarding two grants specifically in the field, to help plan model courses in Bedford, Mass., and New Orleans. Even the Roman Catholic Church, which hitherto has given the subject a wide berth, is taking the plunge...
...where wartime bombing later destroyed them. In 1946, Interpol was reborn in Paris to combat postwar crime. It got a charter, a general assembly and a secretary-general-currently Jean Nepote, 52, a French Sûreté Nationale commissioner on leave. One-third of Nepote's 90-odd staffers are French detectives; most of his $500,000 annual budget is paid in dues by member countries-98 of them, from America to Yugoslavia (the only Communist country) to Zambia. The U.S. contribution...
...child, she insisted she was as much a queen as Elizabeth I. She became an atheist after her mother told her that her afflictions were brought about by a wrathful God who visited the sins of the fathers on the sons. In later life, she developed an odd, quasi-mystical faith of her own, and she has woven its demons and angels, its swans and minarets into her patchwork chronicles. She learned how to sew because, though an invalid, she was forced to serve as her father's assistant in his tailor shop during World...
...been forced to buy more costly insurance from so-called "high-risk" companies. Since 1960, more than 75 high-risk firms have gone into bankruptcy, leaving 300,000 claimants holding the bag for at least $100 million-and giving the whole industry a bad name. In California, where 950-ODD companies now write auto-insurance policies, Deputy Insurance Commissioner Harry Miller says: "If we could just cut that to 900, and pick the 50 we'd get rid of, we could cut out 95% of our complaints...