Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...apartment house on stilts which Swiss-born Architect Le Corbusier had designed for Marseille (TIME, Feb. 2, 1948) was well under way; one of its 300-odd apartments was already furnished and open for inspection. Visitors found the apartment neat and ingenious but cramped, and one Marseille newspaper complained that the finished building would cost as much as 600 nice little private houses...
...have anywhere from 50 to 200 planes. The smaller figure is probably more nearly correct. The planes include Russian Yak fighters and light bombers. South Korea has only ten T-6 trainers and some Cub liaison planes; the U.S. has shown no interest in furnishing planes for the yo-odd South Korean pilots who are ready for fast fighter training...
According to Father Feeney "liberal theology," or the theology that says salvation is possible for non-Catholics, has pervaded the hierarchy of the archdiocese if not the entire world, and it is the self appointed task of the 70-odd people connected with the Center to bring these "heretics" back to the "truth." Their five-year struggle to do this against such odds is the basis of the book...
Britain and the Commonwealth decided to have a go at the Southeast Asia mess. Last week a group known as the Commonwealth Consultative Committee on Economic Aid to South and Southeast Asia, composed of 70-odd delegates from all Commonwealth nations except South Africa, met in Sydney, Australia, and produced a program. The Commonwealth nations decided to 1) set aside a fund of $22,400,000 for technical and medical aid to the countries of Southeast Asia during the next three years; 2) set up a bureau at Colombo, Ceylon, which will deploy technicians from Commonwealth countries wherever they...
Bull's Eye. Last week, Pomerantz was ready to collect again. This time his target was Textron Incorporated's Royal Little, who had parlayed a Providence rayon yarn dyeing mill into a $54 million, 20-odd plant textile empire. Textron's baffling labyrinth of foundations and "charitable" trusts had been investigated by Congress, but nobody had ever explored it with such profit as Pomerantz. As usual, he was representing a small (50 shares) stockholder, a Mrs. Lillian Berger of Boston. She, through Pomerantz, charged that Little and his family had been enriched by profits which should have...