Word: 60th
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...leaders were sharing some of the darkest moments in history. It was January of 1942. The Japanese, after their attack on Pearl Harbor, were invading the Philippines and advancing southward through British Malaya; the Germans ruled most of Europe. But Jan. 30 was also Roosevelt's 60th birthday, and Churchill remembered to wish him many happy returns, "and may your next birthday see us a long lap forward on our road." That was what prompted Roosevelt's expression of delight to be sharing such a road with such...
There were also some pats on the back. TIME'S 60th anniversary issue elicited 496 letters (ninth highest for the year), most in praise. "It is the events of my life passing before me," said a nostalgic reader. Nor was it surprising to find one section of that issue singled out for compliments: the highlights from 60 years of TIME'S letters to the editor...
...Illinois campus. His subject: the need for a historical perspective in evaluating the changes that have transformed America over the past five decades. In the process, the President was inaugurating TIME'S Distinguished Speakers Program, a series of lectures presented in connection with the magazine's 60th anniversary. The talks will be given by outstanding men and women of various disciplines and claims to fame who have appeared on TIME'S cover...
...planned outlays of a piddling $4 billion, or less than two-thirds of 1 % of nonmilitary spending. Among other things, the Administration has dropped a proposal to make Medicare patients pay more of the early costs of hospitalization in return for Government assumption of all bills after the 60th day. It saw no point in risking the wrath of elderly voters by putting forward a plan that Congress would probably reject...
...Police Gazette, 1954-55, or Gotham News, 1955-56, the impacted, jostling city paintings that initiated de Kooning's bravura landscapes of the late '50s. With these and other gaps, one gets a less than full picture of the artist at his best, up to his 60th year. By the time the show gets to Europe and other early works have dropped out, it will be patchier still; a pity, since the Whitney plainly wants the show to revise art history with a bang, installing de Kooning in Pollock's place as the central hero of abstract...