Word: 60th
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...peace," in November. Nixon used this same device to boost his candidacy for re-election. Six weeks later, he justified his political terror bombing of the North by citing the "overwhelming mandate" given him by the American people on November 6. Then, in an Associated Press interview on his 60th birthday, Nixon expressed "disappointment" that his decision to carpet-bomb the North had engendered opposition...
GEMINI; Erroll Garner (London, $5.98). In his 60th or so LP, Jazz Pianist Garner sounds fresher and more original than he has in years. Standards like How High the Moon and It Could Happen to You comprise the usual teasing introduction and pleasing acquaintanceship. Two Afro-Latin originals, Gemini and Eldorado, burst with exhilarating improvisation...
...Vincent Learson, chairman and chief executive of the corporation for only 15 months, chose his 60th birthday to announce that he will retire next Jan. 1. He will be replaced by Frank T. Gary, 51, now IBM's president. Learson's departure, in fact, is little more than a routine management turnover. Back in 1966, when he became president, he expressed his intention of stepping down at 60. Learson will leave the corporation in brimming health; IBM's first-half net income rose 22%, to a record $618 million, on record revenues of $4.7 billion...
...shaped like the Eskimo whale-skinning knife) for individual and team winners in such conventional sports as cross-country skiing, figure skating, basketball, ice hockey and table tennis. The combination of exotic native feats and intense territorial rivalry have made the games the liveliest sporting event north of the 60th parallel...
...impressive array of bank accounts-led by a Minnesota financier and longtime Humphrey backer, Dwayne Andreas. Arthur Krim, the New York theater magnate, is still thought to be in the Humphrey camp, and Eugene Wyman, H.H.H.'s big Southern California money raiser, has never left it. At a 60th birthday gala...