Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...celebrate his first birthday (Nov. 25), the White House lifted the swaddling curtain for the first fullface portrait of John F. Kennedy Jr. since his christening, revealed that, although the picture shows him chomping on a toy rooster, a hand-me-down steam engine from Sister Caroline is actually his favorite possession. Other vital statistics cleared for release: weight-23 lbs.; height-30 in.; vocabulary-"Da-da, Mama and other noises...
...diplomats of 68 nations assembled to congratulate him on his forthcoming 80th birthday (Nov. 25) and the third anniversary of his coronation, Pope John XXIII unburdened himself of a sobering exhortation. "Grounds for fear for the future of mankind are not lacking," said the Pontiff. This, he added, makes it all the more urgent for men to "use well the time given them to act in favor of peace, of civilization and of true progress...
Most of Pinter's plays, mainly one-acters, have dealt with small, desperate souls in small, unkempt rooms, tuning in on them with cruel precision, but making no attempt to particularize or resolve their dilemmas. Three years ago, his first full-length play, The Birthday Party, was greeted by a chorus of derision from London critics and ran for only a week before audiences averaging 20 people. But Pinter's drab and isolated rooms, surrounded by the menace of the unknown and the uncontrollable, gradually seemed less obscure. The Birthday Party was revived with great success...
This week, as Picasso celebrates his 80th birthday, the treasure goes on record in a new book illustrated and written by Duncan and printed under his supervision in Switzerland (and published in the U.S. by Harper*). Picasso's Picassos is more than a historymaking catalogue of the unknown paintings at the villa "La Californie"; it is also a touchingly sentimental journey into Picasso's life. Duncan spent six months photographing the paintings while Picasso watched and commented, and the book's 102 color plates thus take on an added dimension. As the reader examines them...
...years of publication-a birthday observed with a silver anniversary issue last week-the monthly Catholic Digest has become the least ecclesiastical, and the most widely accepted, publication produced under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Church. Its paid circulation of 751,178 is surpassed among Catholic magazines only by Columbia (1,070,361), published largely for the Knights of Columbus, a fraternal order for Catholic laity. C.D. is printed in five languages and ten international editions (for Britain and Ireland, Belgium, The Netherlands, India, Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France and the Philippines), and it is the only Catholic publication...