Word: birthday
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...French have their way, a ride on a subway need no longer be a nerve-racking, ear-wrecking experience on shrieking steel wheels. The government-owned Paris Metro, which celebrated its 63rd birthday last week, has just installed a revolutionary innovation on its high-traffic Vincennes-Neuilly line: cars that run along the tracks on pneumatic tires. The result of ten years of experiments commissioned by the Métro, the new system was developed jointly by tiremaker Michelin, automaker Renault and the Compagnie Electro-Mécanique. Eventually it will be used along the entire 160-mile length...
...which happens to be the see of Diem's brother, Archbishop Ngo Dinh Thuc. Though Catholics were allowed to fly Vatican flags at a church celebration honoring Archbishop Thuc, three days later the government forbade the Buddhists to unfurl their religious flags for the 2,507th birthday of Gautama Buddha. When the Buddhists staged a protest march against the edict, government armored cars fired over the heads of the rioters. In the melee, nine people were killed. The Buddhists blamed the slaughter on Diem's troops; the government blamed the killings on Communist agitators...
...cars crumpled together. One truck passenger and five truck drivers-one of them 14 vehicles back-were killed. Baker suffered a minor neck injury. >Construction Worker Samuel Brown was eager to get away from northern Arizona's Glen Canyon Dam-and with good reason. It was his 21st birthday, next day was the holiday and also the opening of the Utah fishing season. He was too eager. As he tried to pass a car on a curve near the town of Glendale, Utah, a truck carrying 27 tons of steel headed straight at him. The big truck smashed Brown...
...looked like a revival of The Green Pastures. Or maybe a toga-clad troupe whooping it up in ancient Rome. But all those friends, Romans, and countrymen turned out to be simply the Order of the Biltmore Bath, gathered in Manhattan for a 75th-birthday celebration honoring James Aloysius Farley, grand old man of the Democratic Party and the Coca-Cola Co. Politically, says Farley, he is "not very active because I'm not invited to be." He nonetheless keeps in fighting trim with weekly sessions in a steam-filled room, "the one place where I can relax." Among...
...language with his studies of polytonality, meter and counterpoint, but he also wrote music that was crippled by flat jokes, banalities and topical trivia. He has written music for text by the Catholic laureate Paul Claudel-and also a Bar Mitzvah cantata for Israel's 13th birthday. With 15 operas, 12 symphonies, 25 film scores, 15 ballets, 35 concertos and 18 string quartets (he stopped when he had written more than Beethoven) behind him, his message is still unclear; in works heavy with both aphorism and enigma, his music ranges from the insufferably bizarre to the ineffably beautiful...