Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sometimes seems as if a great eclipse is advancing on Washington. The President and the White House are slowly being shadowed. Johnson falls with increasing regularity from the front pages of the papers-although he can still agitate the photographers when an occasion like his grandson's first birthday comes up. He is forgotten in cocktail conversation that dwells on new candidates. His presence does not pervade the Government. Events, of course, could resurrect him. Crisis could make him the man of the moment. But as soon as the tense times passed, he would fade again. Perhaps...
...farmers' grain and potatoes. Neither gold nor a cushion of foreign exchange backed the infant mark. Yet its creation proved to be the essential underpinning of the Wirtschaftswunder that transformed West Germany into Europe's most prosperous power. By last week, as West Germans celebrated the 20th birthday of their postwar currency, the once lowly Deutsche mark had risen to become one of the two most coveted moneys in the world...
...birthday festivities in Bonn's Beethoven Hall, former Chancellor Ludwig Erhard recalled his crucial 1948 decision to close West Germany's banks and deal no more in grotesquely inflated reichsmarks (1,000 for a carton of U.S. cigarettes). As economic boss of occupied West Germany, Erhard courageously exchanged only 6½ Deutsche marks for every 100 of the old marks, thus wiping out the cash savings of most of his countrymen for the second time in a generation.* A laissez-faire economist, Erhard followed currency reform by abolishing price controls and rationing. "The only chance I had," said...
...eroding it, among them crowded housing, low pay and a divorce rate that has risen above the U.S. rate (2.8 divorces for every 1,000 people v. an estimated 2.7 for the U.S.). Divorce is forbidden when the wife is pregnant and until her child reaches its first birthday. The code calls on judges in the People's Courts to reconcile couples seeking divorce. It also provides for a waiting period of one month, instead of the usual two weeks, between the time a couple applies for a license and the marriage, in order to discourage hasty unions. That...
...there was hay to be made that summer, but the season was short. In September, when the girls left Grays and the ones from the "Annex" -- Radcliffe -- returned to take their places, Selective service head General Louis Hershey announced that every able-bodied man who passed his twentieth birthday was sure to be drafted. And there were no 2-S deferments then...