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With the approach of the state's 350th birthday, the next Secretary of State will have a special job, Sears said...
Harvard's 8-1 sinking of a competent Navy batallion notched the 350th victory in Barnaby's soon-to-end 36-year career. But Barnaby just nodded nonchalantly at his informant and turned back to his conference...
...enactment of the Pilgrims' landing at Plymouth Rock in December 1620 provides a speaker with a perfect opportunity to extol the sturdy example of that dauntless band of early settlers. On the 350th anniversary observance last week, the Rev. Billy Graham praised the faith of the founding fathers and warned: "Anything less than this will let us down and we will continue on the toboggan slide that will take us to the ash heaps of history." Alas, one of the modern-day Pilgrims thereupon took a pratfall into Plymouth Bay as he tried to step ashore...
Myth, much of it, the creation of patriotic 19th century romantics. Yet the coming of the Pilgrims is being celebrated this year with particular fervor, for 1970 marks the 350th anniversary of their landing on Nov. 21, 1620, at what is now Provincetown, Mass., and their final settlement at Plymouth a month later. The celebration will continue until November 1971-the 350th anniversary of the First Thanksgiving -and it is richly deserved, because the Pilgrims were more fascinating in fact than they ever were in fiction...
...Doorman's next scheduled stop was a courtesy call at Yokohama to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the establishment of Japanese-Dutch diplomatic relations. Indonesian officials wept publicly at the idea. Foreign Minister Subandrio declared he was disappointed in the Japanese, who, he had thought, sympathized with Indonesia's efforts to create "a new world free from suppression and misery." Indonesia forthwith threatened to break relations with Japan, and declared that a $20 million contract to buy Japanese textiles was "in danger." Japanese Socialists pronounced the visit "utterly intolerable," and the Zengakuren student federation threatened demonstrations. Last week...