Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...introduced in other Socialist countries. And Polityka, a magazine with a large readership among young party members, bemoaned the considerable age gap between leading party officials, many of whom are in their sixties, and the rest of the country-40% of whose people have not yet reached their 19th birthday...
...speaker strode to the podium, TV lights glared down upon his balding head and visibly strained face. Then some 3,000 stalwarts of Poland's Communist Party rose to their feet and sang: "May he live 100 years." All in all, it could have been a national birthday party for Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka-but instead it was the tensest moment in his nearly dozen years in power. After eleven days of nationwide student demonstrations, Gomulka, 63, finally spoke out in an effort to restore order to Poland. What he said was sur prisingly mild but, partially for that...
...antiwar picket line in Dallas. And in Austin that night, a soft-drink bottle was hurled at Johnson's car from the midst of a crowd of 200 hooting and cheering University of Texas students when the President came unannounced to Governor John Connally's 51st birthday dinner...
Trumpeted to dinner by the horn blast from Aida, 232 guests marched into the dining room at the Birnam Wood Country Club in Santa Barbara, Calif., to raise hosannas to Soprano Lotte Lehmann on her 80th birthday. It was the sort of occasion that called forth a telegram of congratulations from West German Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger and commanded the presence of such votaries as Tenor Lauritz Melchior, Actress Judith Anderson and Conductor Zubin Mehta. "I am excited and overwhelmed," said Lehmann, who retired 17 years ago but still teaches master classes in voice at the University of California...
Across the land last week, disciples of Malcolm X marked the third anniversary of the Negro militant's assassination by turning the event-just one day before Washington's Birthday-into what they hope will be a series of black holidays. "We need our days," said a Boston celebrant, "just as Jewish people have days to express their identity. At the time Washington was very busy being the father of our country, we were very busy being slaves. He doesn't have much relevance...