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After the multitiered extravaganza presented to him in Houston on the eve of his 55th birthday, Vice President Lyndon Johnson figured he had had his cake (and eaten it too). So when he showed up next morning for the weekly White House breakfast with Democratic legislative leaders, he was unbraced for anything festive. Then President Kennedy had a surprise cake brought in, and the Texas birthday boy was downright breathless. It took him four mighty puffs to dispatch the cake's five candles. Tch-tched Florida Senator George Smathers: "Shameful for an ex-Senator...
...Nelson Rockefeller nervously tapped the dead microphone that stood before him in the Napoleon Room of Miami Beach's marble-and-glass Deauville Hotel. "Somebody's cut my wire," he grinned. Far from getting his wires cut, Rockefeller did some aggressively effective wire-cutting himself at the 55th annual Governors Conference in Miami Beach last week. Leading an outnumbered but united phalanx of Republican Governors, he outmaneuvered the Democrats, achieved a thumping tactical triumph for his party by embarrassing the Democrats on the nation's prickliest domestic issue: civil rights...
...house party at Seal Harbor, Me., was a quiet family affair-the four Murphy children, Happy and Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who was celebrating his 55th birthday. After ice cream and a large birthday cake (with only one candle), Happy gave her husband a blue sailing shirt and two cashmere sweaters, and the kids gave their new stepfather birthday cards. Then for six days the New York Governor relaxed in the privacy of his vacation retreat and indulged an irresistible yen for Maine lobster-at almost every meal except breakfast...
...getting late in the football season. Hour exams suddenly appear to shatter the calm of the reading-period scholar, a wintry breeze rattles the bare branches of the trees in the Yard, and the Harvards are playing the Princetons for the 55th time at Palmer Stadium in Princeton today...
...clutched tape measures and struggled to look important. Skivvy-suited competitors sucked oranges, signed autographs and stretched stiff muscles with weird calisthenics. A brass band assaulted the night with Music to Run a Relay To. Over everything hovered the athletic aroma of sweat and oil of wintergreen. Then the 55th Millrose Games were on, and the 16,000 people packed into Madison Square Garden were given a night to remember...