Word: 60th
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...students at New York University last week (see WORLD), Philippine President Corazon Aquino became the fourth major figure drawn from the personalities in the news to participate in the TIME Distinguished Speakers Program. Initiated by TIME three years ago as part of the festivities marking the magazine's 60th anniversary, the purpose of the program is to provide the outstanding men and women who have appeared on TIME covers with a platform from which to address students at colleges and universities across the country...
...Fairchild (Julie Andrews) finds herself on a Friday afternoon, with the lab scheduled to close for the weekend that now stretches endlessly before her. Her three children, all lost in the self-absorption of young adulthood, are arriving to attend the party she is throwing for her husband's 60th birthday. Under these circumstances she decides to keep the terror to herself...
...work to be done. Wilson kept careful lists of what he read and what he thought about it. This was the period when he gathered together many of his earlier essays in Classics and Commercials (1950), The Shores of Light (1952) and Red, Black, Blond and Olive (1956). His 60th birthday in 1955 prompted him to offer A Piece of My Mind: Reflections at Sixty (1956). Though this may seem a rather heterogeneous outpouring, there was an underlying coherence. "Much of Wilson's postwar energy," as David Castronovo has written in a critical biography, "was devoted to the analysis...
...drop in the surplus resulted from Japanese imports during June of $1.33 billion worth of gold, most of it American. The Japanese plan to use the gold to mint special commemorative coins to celebrate the 60th year of Emperor Hirohito's reign. Without those onetime gold sales, America's deficit with Japan would have been about $4.5 billion, a new monthly record...
...secret of their desire to promote him for another term as Prime Minister. Their hopes were buoyed by the Prime Minister's uncommon popularity and out-front style. Over the past month, besides serving as host to the Tokyo summit, Nakasone has presided over ceremonies marking Emperor Hirohito's 60th year on the throne, and feted the Prince and Princess of Wales during their six-day visit to Japan. A new poll released last week by the Tokyo daily Yomiuri Shimbun showed support for the Prime Minister at a robust...