Word: 65th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Five weeks after Erhard marked Adenauer's 86th birthday with the gift of a stone bench (which he carefully specified was not intended for use in retirement), Adenauer paid his second visit to the Economics Ministry in twelve years to give Erhard a pair of thoughtfully chosen 65th birthday gifts: a recorded selection of Adenauer speeches and a baroque desk clock, which promptly rang the hour, leading Cabinet jesters to wonder for whom it tolled. But final blood went to Erhard supporters in the interministerial glee club which serenaded Adenauer's departure with a chorus from The Flying...
Show business's "star-spangled octopus," the Music Corp. of America, was up in alms. After the talent agency's top brass decided to honor Board Chairman Jules Caesar Stem's 65th birthday with a donation to his favorite charity -Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc.-ex-Ophthalmologist Stein promised to "match anything raised up to a million." Last week 19 of his openhanded executives ponied up an even million and forced him to fill out the $2,000,000 parlay. Said part-time Philanthropist Stein: "I guess they've done pretty well here, after...
...constructive thinking along unorthodox lines in business," says IBM President Thomas Watson Jr., "you have it made. Sherman Fairchild is able to think along unorthodox lines." Fairchild's departure from orthodoxy begins right at the front door of his town house on Manhattan's East 65th Street, where he conducts all the affairs of his companies. The house is the height of a three-story house, but actually contains six levels built around an inner courtyard. Instead of staircases, long, floating ramps connect the staggered floors. In the midst of Manhattan's bustle, the soundproofed, air-conditioned...