Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today only three of Spandau's original postwar prisoners remain: Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach, 59; Armaments Minister Albert Speer, 61; and that most mysterious of Hitler's odd coterie, Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess, 72. To keep this trio confined, Russia, France, Britain and the U.S still maintain a special four-power commission, and on a monthly rotation send 79 civilians, officers and men to run Spandau...
...Odd Instrument. S.E.T. is so odd an instrument that when it was introduced last May by Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan, M.P.s of all parties, who had been ready to whoop into battle, were virtually stunned into silence...
Politics & Eagles. The trouble began when Father Groppi, 35, led the N.A.A.C.P. Youth Council in picketing Judge Cannon's house in Wauwatosa to protest his membership in the Fraternal Order of Eagles, a men's organization that, like such similar groups as the Elks, Moose and Odd Fellows, specifically excludes non-Caucasians (one prominent Eagle: David Lawrence, chairman of the President's Advisory Committee on Equal Opportunity in Housing). The council picked Cannon because he has a generally liberal record, figured that he would therefore be the most likely to give in and leave the white-only...
Moscow's Research Institute of Experimental Surgical Apparatus and Instruments went to work in the 1950s and devised 20-odd mechanical staplers to suture internal tissues together with stainless steel wires. But few surgeons were ready to drop their deft fingerwork and give the experimental devices a try. Now, almost a decade later, American improvements on Russian designs are beginning to bring automatic suturing into the operating room...
...time of his death at 63 in 1931, Arnold Bennett was the ruler of Britain's literary roost. He was not only the author of 70-odd volumes of novels, plays and other assorted pieces, but the one literary critic in London whose Olympian deliberations (in the London Evening Standard) were regarded as absolute gospel...