Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stunned by a crash landing that sheared the wings and tail from his Skyraider, Dengler stepped bleary-eyed into a world of muck, vines and violence that stood in odd contrast to his tidy, air-conditioned stateroom on the carrier Ranger. Abandoning his radio, .38-cal. pistol and dehydrated rations, Dengler ducked into the bush-but was jumped by Communist Pathet Lao guerrillas...
With such anti-Establishmentarian overtones, it could almost have been an international congress of anarchists. It was merely part of the week-long "Destruction in Art Symposium," a festival of happenings being staged across Lon don by 40-odd (some very odd) artists from ten countries. The symposium was dedicated to the sobering proposition that "society will ignore the manifestation of destruction in art at its peril...
...industrial production is up 15% , and after nearly two years of inflation brought on by Papandreou's free-spending policies, prices have stabilized. Governing with a precarious majority of 152 Deputies (out of a 300-man Parliament), in which the balance of power is held by 40-odd Deputies weaned away from Papandreou's once-dominant Center Union Party with promises of Cabinet portfolios, Stephanopoulos has rammed through some tax reforms. Even before they went into effect, collections jumped 35% . Possibly this was because the prosperous shipowners and commercial aristocracy who sometimes take a casual attitude toward taxpaying...
...Santa Barbara yacht basin. No propellers, no jets were visible along its sleek, 10-ft.-long hull, yet the sub was obviously moving under its own power, gliding silently at about 2 m.p.h. 3 ft. under the surface. There was not a motor on board, but the odd little boat was being propelled by the same electrical phenomenon that causes rotors in electric motors to turn: electromagnetic force...
Attendant SprriK The Cotters' England is also a very odd place; it is a place with a socialist government dedicated to equal bureaucracy for all, and at the same time a place where Stonehenge during the midsummer solstice is officially closed to tourists in favor of ac credited witches, warlocks and their attendant spirits...