Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seven years of jumping in Massachusetts, one of this country's leading parachute centers, there has been only one death--the birthday cake drowning of last September off Plum Island...
...artists have recorded so searingly the anguish of their time, for almost every drawing or lithograph Kathe Kollwitz produced turned out to be a cry of pain. Last week, in honor of what would have been her 95th birthday-she died in 1945 -the East Berlin Academy of the Arts had on view 106 of her works, all but a few in stark black and white. Since she had spoken so lovingly of the proletariat, the Communists have tried to make much of her, but their stern and sterile ideology would hardly have found comfort in Köthe Kollwitz...
There is a great deal more of this. One swinsuit advertisement features a picture of a beautiful nude lying on the sane. The caption reads "How to be the one who's different, you, smiling that secret smile in Jetsam amazing water wearables, Miraculous Birthday Suit (design by House of Emperor) ends those soggy swinsuit blues...
Several years ago, my mother picked up for $20 an old player piano [TIME, June 22] that seemed beyond repair. She gave it to my father for his birthday and wished him luck. With the help of cut-up babies' rubber pants for the bellows, new felt for the key backings, and an old vacuum cleaner for self-pumping, we now have a fully automated intune player piano...
...away from a plane crash at London's Croydon airport. At 48, he surrendered his appendix to a surgeon's knife and, nine years later in the U.S., lost a decision to a Manhattan taxicab, which knocked him down and broke some Churchillian bones. Since his 70th birthday, the ailments have come thick and fast: a hernia operation in 1947, a stroke in 1953 and, two years ago, a broken bone in his back from a fall in his London home. On that occasion, Churchill celebrated his 86th birthday with cigars and-in place of brandy-a bottle...