Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME'S sports jinx myth was dying, TIME'S youngest sister publication, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, reached its lively first birthday. In its anniversary issue this week, SI assays the gold in what it calls the new golden age of sports, and reports on some of its own accomplishments. SI has made some notable contributions to sports coverage in its first year: a wide use of color photography; detailed Previews of major events; the new Conversation Piece, a revealing report on sports greats in their own words, e.g., Pitcher Preacher Roe's admission that he threw illegal spit balls...
...likes to see younger men brought to the forefront and given an opportunity in the top jobs, so that their vitality and ideas can be employed in solving the nation's problems. Then there was another consideration. No President in history, Ike said, had reached his 70th birthday in the White House. The presidency was a grueling job, he said; it worked a certain physical erosion on a man.- Ike's remarks left the Ohioans completely bewildered...
...government in the free world. Your U.S. re-education program after the war told us about great Americans like Lincoln and Jefferson, but I did not find a clue then . . . When I was put in an Allied jail as a Hitler Youth leader-I celebrated my 19th birthday there-it did not help much either. I'll always be grateful for the Marshall Plan aid because it saved my little brother's life and millions of Germans from starvation. But by giving a man enough to eat, you don't convince him of Democracy . . . Only the people...
Last week, the day after Bridges' 54th birthday, Federal Judge Louis E. Goodman read his ten-page verdict. Its substance: the Government had failed to prove Bridges' "membership in the Communist Party by clear and convincing evidence." "How's that for a birthday present, Harry?" shouted a longshoreman. Grinned Bridges: "That's great...
...government officials, Molotov and Mikoyan, but even, in some respects, to his subordinate: Hero of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov. Bulganin learned self-effacement in the hardest school of all: Joseph Stalin's, where self-effacement was often the price of survival. On the dictator's 70th birthday, every member of the Politburo was required to compose a paean of praise for the Soviet newspapers. Khrushchev contrived to include 45 separate mentions of Stalin's name and Malenkov 57, but Bulganin topped them all. He mentioned the boss 108 times in his piece-easily a record...