Word: 22nd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perfect Buggers. For all his flair and dare, Page has developed into a sensitive photographer who has the respect as well as friendship of almost the entire Saigon press corps. Many of them gathered last May to celebrate his 22nd birthday. He had just been wounded in Danang, but suddenly showed up in Saigon announcing: "All you can do up there is drink vodka Collins. Besides, they're perfect buggers, those Buddhist rebels. It's my birthday, mate; let's order some champagne. I never thought I'd live to see it." Hardly anyone else...
...French archaeologist who, after finding the world's oldest alphabetical inscription at a Lebanon site in 1922, went on to spend 20 years excavating at the Nile Delta town of Tanis, onetime capital of ancient Egypt, uncovering through the years three mummies of Pharaohs from the 21st and 22nd dynasties, their gold death masks and silver sarcophagi still intact; of pulmonary congestion; in Paris...
Like any other voodoo mystic, Haitian Dictator François ("Papa Doc") Duvalier has his good-luck day: the 22nd. He was elected "President" on Sept. 22, 1957, inaugurated Oct. 22, then installed as "President for Life" on June 22, 1964. Some Haitians even credit his occult powers with the Nov. 22, 1963 assassination of President Kennedy, a longtime foe. But last Jan. 22, Duvalier's luck suddenly seemed to turn when one of his two DC-3s crashed on Haiti's southern peninsula, crippling his rickety little air force. Haitians hopefully spread the word that Duvalier might...
...Spalding and a few other select Hollywood, the chance to meet Lynda Bird Johnson came last weekend when handsome Screen Actor Hamilton brought his girl home to meet Mother. The occasion was Lynda's 22nd birthday. Assembled in the $200,000 house, once owned by Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, were 125 show business celebrities, among them Greer Garson, Natalie Wood, Elke Sommer, Bobby Darin, Jill St. John and Eddie Fisher, who obliged by singing Linda ("When I go to sleep...
Rump Groups. Committee Chairman Emanuel Celler, serving his 22nd term, made another point by reading to Katzenbach a passage from Madison's Federalist Papers urging "frequent elections" for House members to ensure their "immediate dependency" on the people...