Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Winston Churchill celebrates his 89th birthday; greetings pour in from all over the civilized world and Ireland. The principality of Gambezi breaks off from the Gabon Republic and is proclaimed the world's newest and smallest state. The influx of diplomats trebels its population...
Winston Churchili celebrates his 90th birthday, and issues a statement that "de Gaulle is getting too big for his breeches." The General answers him in a curt note to the Queen: "My dear young lady: It is evident that Britain is the sick man of Europe." In Washington, a vengeful group of Rhodes scholars led by Dean Rusk tears the Mona Lisa to pieces. The Paris mob finds an elderly American lady who looks like Grandma Moses, and shreds her in retaliation. De Gaulle challenges Rusk to a duel...
Winston Churchill, hale and hearty as ever, celebrates his third birthday of the year from the French Riviera. He notes with pleasure that the "Western Alliance of English-speaking and other sorts of peoples" remains firm. De Gaulle rushes to the Riviera and slaps Churchill's face with a white glove. A new strain in the Alliance develops. Dean Ford, receiving the news in the middle of a Faculty meeting on granting Ph.D.'s to Advanced Standing undergraduates, chuckles, and leaves immediately for France. "What a lark," he tells reporters at the airport...
...urged nations to "hear the anguished cry which from every part of the earth, from the young innocents to the old. rises toward heaven: 'Peace! Peace!'" Even Nikita Khrushchev was moved. He praised the Pope's pleas for peace, sent him a greeting on his 80th birthday. Many in the Vatican thought the Pope should ignore it, but John sat down and wrote a reply: "Thank you for the thought. And I will pray for the people of Russia...
Mosaic, the publication of the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Societies, has with its most recent issue reached its second-and-a-half birthday, which certainly means, reckoning by the ferocious rate of infant magazine mortality hereabouts, that it has attained its majority. True, Mosaic enjoys considerable financial support that other local little ones have never been able to find, but where oh where has it been able to find such an abundance of excellent copy? Coming of age has not withered Mosaic; and speaking as the past editor of another small Cambridge magazine, I can only marvel at its infinite variety...