Word: birthday
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Back in Washington, the President sent a bouquet and congratulations to his maternal grandmother, Mrs. John F. Fitzgerald, who marked her 98th birthday in Boston. Looking forward to next year's vacations, the White House announced that the First Family had leased Annandale Farm on Narragansett Bay at Newport, R.I., for the months of August and September. Annandale, the same estate that a group of Rhode Islanders wanted to buy and present to Kennedy as a permanent summer White House in 1962, will replace the First Family's summer home at Squaw Island in Hyannis Port...
...from building an atom bomb, but their antiaircraft techniques appear effective enough. Last year they shot down a Nationalist U-2 reconnaissance plane, one of a pair sold to Formosa by the U.S. in 1960. Last week, on the day after Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's 76th birthday, Peking announced that it had shot down the other U-2 over the mainland...
Otherwise the old fighter's birthday seemed serene. At his hilltop residence outside Taipei, Chiang spent the day quietly with his family and followed Chinese custom by eating the traditional "longevity noodles." The most elaborate birthday gift came from a group of wealthy Chinese living in Thailand: $750,000 for a basketball stadium in Taipei. In island-wide celebrations, a choral group of 10,000 soldiers sang birthday songs, toasts were proposed for Chiang's health at thousands of dinners, and a spruce detachment of Nationalist Chinese "WAVES" paraded smartly. Chiang still clings to an old hope. Spotting...
...boss of the nation's second largest steel company and biggest ship builder: "I don't like to talk about it, but April 14 is the annual meeting of Bethlehem Steel; it is the date of the expiration of my term as director, and it is my birthday...
Decorum & Dignity. The birthday party also turned out to be a free-swinging attack on Jack Kennedy, his Administration, his family, his cronies and his family's cronies. G.O.P. National Chairman William Miller was the chief swinger. "Do you recall," he cried, "Sinatra types infesting 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in the Eisenhower days? Or twisting in the historic East ballroom? Or wild swimming-pool antics shocking to all the country? Or all-night parties in foreign lands? No, you do not recall such things, because from 1953 to 1961 there was a sense of propriety and fitness and decorum...