Word: 60th
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, when the magazine reached its 50th birthday with last week's issue, it did not actually announce the occasion on its cover, or anywhere else in the magazine. That sort of self-promotion is for other magazines: for The New Republic, whose cover logotype recently sported a superimposed "60th Year" in colored ink; for People, whose publisher spends a full page in the current issue celebrating the magazine's first birthday. The New Yorker does not go in for that sort of self-congratulation. It would be pretentious, and The New Yorker has always tried, solemnly if pretentiously...
...with messages of encouragement from President Ford, 61, and California's Governor Reagan, 63, Jack celebrated his 60th birthday by swimming 1½ miles across San Francisco Bay from Alcatraz to Fisherman's Wharf-handcuffed, his feet chained together, and towing a rowboat filled with 1,000 lbs. of sand. After 80 minutes of diving through the bay like a clumsy dolphin, Jack landed at the Wharf, blue with cold. Rushed to a nearby sauna for defrosting, he emerged to the cheers of fans and promptly fell to the ground, only to do ten brisk pushups. Then...
...that leftover campaign funds had been used by President Nixon's good friend C.G. ("Bebe") Rebozo to pay for various major improvements to the Nixon properties at Key Biscayne and for a pair of platinum-set diamond earrings that the President gave to Pat in 1972 for her 60th birthday...
...diary of the progress and recession of a deadly disease, partly reflections and recollections of the good life he had had and was leaving. Inspired by it, people wrote Alsop from all over the world. Last week Stewart Alsop died, only nine days past the celebration of his 60th birthday...
...Ervin pounded his gavel for the last time at 4:45 in the afternoon and then, after a round of handshakes and picture taking, he took the gavel with him as he departed for a surprise party to celebrate Herman E. Talmadge's 60th birthday. After 37 days, 33 witnesses, 7,573 pages of transcript and nearly 2,000,000 words of testimony, just about everybody felt it was time for a rest...