Word: birthday
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...agreed to pay Jordan $35 million a year to replace the subsidy once supplied by Britain, but only Saudi Arabia has fulfilled its promise. "The agreement is not worth the paper it is written on," said Hussein. Next day he took off for the desert to celebrate his 22nd birthday with a picnic and duck shoot...
Some 100,000 partygoers jammed into New Delhi's National Stadium to wish a happy 68th birthday to India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Thousands of schoolchildren sang and danced, released a squadron of white peace doves, and squealed their delight to smiling Chacha (Uncle) while he tossed them scores of marigold garlands...
France's new Premier brought a fresh face into the tired gallery of politicians who have governed France since World War 11. Elected on his 38th birthday, Felix Gaillard became the youngest man to rule France since Napoleon Bonaparte became First Consul in 1799. "Of course," said one of Gaillard's aides last week, "Bonaparte also was very gifted...
...Communists and the Poujadistes in opposition. With victory secured, Gaillard and Bourges climbed into a new Citroen and joined Mme. Gaillard at the Brasserie Lipp, a Left Bank restaurant which is the traditional spot for French Premiers to celebrate their election to or ejection from office. There, a birthday cake topped with a model of the Assembly building awaited him. As he prepared to cut into it, Assembly President Andre Le Troquer protested. "Don't cut up the Assembly! You've already had enough trouble pasting those pieces together...
...keep rejecting one another's candidates, that he should head a "government to defend the republic." The Socialists balked, but finally at week's end agreed to back him. Barring a last-minute hitch, Gaillard was to be voted into office this week, on his 38th birthday, as the youngest Premier in the history of modern France...