Might have been a typo from the copy/paste, but you need a dot before the second view-Specials in your selector. Between Firebug and Web Developer to edit your CSS, I was able to change the style of the Specials block like this:
.view-Specials tr.odd, .view-Specials tr.even {
background-color: #ffffff;
}
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