Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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champion, the kibitzers are moved to uncommon awe. Bobby, they declare, is ganz meshuga, which is to say that he is quite addled. Though he celebrated his 15th birthday only last week, he already shows all the marks of the great grand masters of one of the oldest, most intricate games known...
Imposing Gains. The picture of Ghana on its first birthday was encouraging. U.S.-educated Kwame Nkrumah and his ministers have proved that a West African country can govern itself. Prudently making the most of cocoa's reviving market in a world of sinking commodity prices, Nkrumah has built Ghana's gold and dollar reserves to nearly $600 million and used Ghana's rising income to finance a long-range development program (ports, roads, schools). Fortified by a two-thirds majority in Parliament, he has imposed stability and order in a nation of six main tribes, three religions...
...week of his 82nd birthday, but Pope Pius XII was in no mood to celebrate. For days he fumed and brooded in his chambers. Then Osservatore Romano curtly announced that because of "the bitterness, sorrow and outrage in Italy," His Holiness had canceled the festivities that were to mark the 19th anniversary of his coronation. Finally, the Vatican lashed out at the culprits who had aroused its fury: it excommunicated the three Florentine judges who had convicted the Bishop of Prato of criminal defamation for having called the civil marriage of a local couple "scandalous concubinage" (TIME, March...
...Dutch negotiator, after too long an exposure to Sukarno, cried in bafflement: "He is utterly unreliable, one day a fascist, the next a Communist; one day a friend of the white man, the next a violent enemy." No one admires such diversity more than Sukarno himself. On his s6th birthday last year, he told a crowd of well-wishers: "I was born under the sign of Gemini, and I am destined to live a double life according to astrologers. I am a Marxist but I love religion. I am a scientist but I am also an artist...
WHILE the editors this week pay anniversary tribute to a durable American figure (see cover story), I should like to report on another birthday. It was 35 years ago this week that Vol. i, No. i of TIME, The Weekly Newsmagazine, went to press...