Word: 36th
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...does. In such circumstances the change of power is cruel but necessary. Ninety-eight minutes after Kennedy was pronounced dead, Lyndon Baines Johnson, 55, was sworn in as 36th President of the United States...
President Johnson will begin his first full day as the nation's 36th Chief Executive when he talks with Secretary of State Dean Rusk at 9:30 a.m. today. Rusk and four other cabinet members had been enroute to Japan for an important trade conference when they received word of President Kennedy's death. They returned immediately to Washington and landed at about midnight...
Biggest source of friction has always been the Bantu kingdom of Buganda, which has one-fourth of the new country's area, one-third of the population and nearly all the wealth. Under Kabaka (King) Frederick Mutesa II, the 36th monarch of Africa's oldest continuously ruling dynasty, Buganda tried to secede from the Uganda Protectorate in 1961. When the British government firmly refused to permit the creation of a new Katanga in its erstwhile colony, Cambridge-educated King Freddie did an about-face and combined forces with Apollo Milton Obote, who had risen from Nilotic herd...
...said. "Now if only I can get it out." After lunch the scholarly young mathematician clicked off a spectacular series of pars and birdies, won five straight holes to even it up at the 27th, and closed out the match to win 1 up on the 36th hole...
...when most women mark even one birthday, Britain's Queen Elizabeth cheerfully celebrates two each year. Last week, with peripatetic Prince Philip back at anchor and her three children at her side, the Queen held a quiet family party at Windsor Castle on the occasion of her 36th birthday. The pomp and pageantry come on June 2, official birthday of British monarchs...