Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...significant thing about Astronaut Shepard's space flight is that it was made on the birthday of Karl Marx, the author of Communism...
...Hall sensation at 13, spent years trying to live down her public image as a gaunt, pig-tailed prodigy in knee stockings. So when twelve full months were mistakenly shaved from her age last week, she took the unwomanly step of setting the record straight. Some invitations to her birthday party had made her 24. Anna Maria, the waiflike Lili of the Broadway musical Carnival!, puffed out the candles on her two-tiered cake and announced determinedly: "I'm 25-a quarter of a century...
...world's most durable dictator turned 72 last week. It was surely the unhappiest birthday for AntÓnio de Oliveira Salazar in the 29 years of his one-man rule of Portugal. He confronted growing unrest at home, bloody rebellion in his big African colony of Angola, found few sympathetic world allies anywhere except in South Africa. But in his first interview in five years (to Brazil's 0 Cruzeiro Correspondent Mario de Moraes) the old autocrat was as acid and abrasive as ever...
Show business's "star-spangled octopus," the Music Corp. of America, was up in alms. After the talent agency's top brass decided to honor Board Chairman Jules Caesar Stem's 65th birthday with a donation to his favorite charity -Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc.-ex-Ophthalmologist Stein promised to "match anything raised up to a million." Last week 19 of his openhanded executives ponied up an even million and forced him to fill out the $2,000,000 parlay. Said part-time Philanthropist Stein: "I guess they've done pretty well here, after...
Moon Maps & Russian. "We started when they were still babies," recalls Mrs. Trifan. "They each knew the alphabet by their second birthday-it was sort of a birthday present." At three, each of the children could read. At six, each had passed third-grade subjects. Richard, 7, is now in Calvert's fifth grade, Daniel, 9, is in the seventh, and Marioara, 11, completed the eighth last June. This puts them three grades ahead of their ages...