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...observes: "Happy the day when everything is going right . . . Sometimes the day is nice. When they need you time ticks away . . . Time is now that reaches your 70th birthday. That it will be a time of your life and it will be always a happy birthday...
With a four-layer cake in his outer office, Chicago's Boss-Mayor Richard J. Daley celebrated his 70th birthday. To friends and newsmen he dispensed spiritual advice: "We should love thy neighbor and honor thy father and thy mother and all senior citizens." And physical: "Exercise, you know, is responsible for my good health. You should be in my basement-jumping rope, punching the bag, lifting weights. The human body will disintegrate if you don't use it." The mayor's well-rounded human body seems in no such danger, whatever may be happening...
...Abbie, who decided not to appear at the "trial," denies it all. "An unmitigated lie," he countered. "I wrote the book, it's my style, and you name me one researcher that ever got 22½% of the royalties of a book." . . . The party in Manhattan for his 70th birthday was of the surprise variety, but Roy Wilkins, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, had a speech ready anyway. "Some days it's optimism, some days sheer frustration," Wilkins said in describing his 40 years with the N.A.A.C.P. "But optimism prevails...
...naughty-noughts" are holding the first 70th Reunion in Harvard history. Arthur Drinkwater '00, the class secretary, was able to contact 10 of the 23 surviving members of the class, but only four showed...
...display. In the Nixonian view, artists in the past have been invited to the White House, as it were, to sing for their supper at a party for someone else. Under the new dispensation, the supper will be given to honor the artist himself. Nixon gave Duke Ellington a 70th birthday party last spring, more recently invited Comedian Red Skelton to inaugurate a series of "Evenings at the White House." The Wyeth show and dinner were Nixon's own suggestion, and nobody else...