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...remember when] Mao Tse-tung was in Moscow for Stalin's 70th birthday on Dec. 21, 1949. I came up from Kiev and ran into a secretary of the Moscow District party...
Arthur Michael Ramsey, 69, surges majestically up the aisle of his own Canterbury Cathedral, a member of the congregation says, "you feel all the power and authority of Christendom." Last week Ramsey announced that, come his 70th birthday in November, he will step down as 100th Archbishop of Canterbury. A determined ecumenist, Ramsey became in 1966 the first Cantuar to officially meet a Pope in 600 years. In avuncular fashion, he even made the swinging scene, telling his fellow clergy to stop being scandalized by topless fashions. He himself shocked his brethren in the middle of an argument about church...
...documents. Some investigators believe that a key to prompt turnover of the evidence held by Jaworski lies in making the necessary legal moves while Sirica, who has vividly demonstrated his desire to expose the full Watergate truth, is still chief judge. He must step down on March 19, his 70th birthday, becoming a senior judge of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. Then he would no longer automatically handle committee motions to acquire evidence...
...entertains his friends by playing duets with his wife Barbara, a former concert pianist. Schmitt has a Teutonic dedication to hard work, moves at constant flank speed and, according to a colleague, has a tendency to "take every red traffic light as a personal affront." Asked at a recent 70th-birthday dinner if he planned to retire, Schmitt did not hesitate: "Not in the conventional sense of the word," he answered. "There are two meanings of this word, and to me, retire means to put new tires on the old chassis and get going again...
Kroc has a personal fortune estimated at $500 million, and he marked his 70th birthday by giving away $9,000,000 worth of McDonald's stock to employees and another $7,500,000 to Chicago-area charities. Still, he wants more. "I expect money like you walk into a room and turn on a light switch or a faucet," he says. "It's not enough...