Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great-aunt is ninety years old and she's going to die soon and this is probably her last birthday so you see I just won't be able to make it next Saturday night, Martin...
...great-aunt's birthday in Connecticut, and, uh (That's a goddamn lie, Martin!) my mother called this morning (At nine A.M.?! Sure she did!) and told me I have to come home next weekend because
...replay in reverse of the White House meeting late in L.B.J.'s presidency at which Johnson briefed President-elect Nixon on the nation's problems. Nixon and Johnson rejoined their families in the villa for a roast-beef luncheon topped off with a three-tiered, lemon-filled birthday cake decorated with yellow roses and Texas bluebonnets. The Nixons gave Johnson a 19-in.-high Japanese bonsai tree and thoughtfully included a book on Practical Bonsai for Beginners...
...Charles has asked that half his ducal revenues be turned over to the government. "He felt he wanted to make a gesture of this sort," said a palace spokesman. But the troubled Exchequer will get no great boost from the gift, which comes on Nov. 14, Charles' 21st birthday. While Charles was a minor, most of the ducal income was used to help pay Queen Elizabeth's annual salary of $1,140,000. Now the treasury must make up the difference...
...that their purpose is accomplished. Now a young sociologist at Johns Hopkins University has suggested that this fictional behavior pattern is well founded in fact. More often than not, accourding to a study by David Phillips, people who are about to die seem to hang on until after a birthday, an election, a religious holiday or another event that they keenly anticipate...