Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...birthday truce itself proved a bloody affair, honored by the Communists in the gun breech from almost its first moments. Saigon, to be sure, blossomed with festooned streets and parades of floats escorted by buzzing swarms of teen-agers on motorbikes. But on the battlefields, bullets and mortars pounded in 73 enemy violations of the truce period recorded by Saigon. Some 30 of them were judged "significant," including a long firefight in southern Quang Ngai province in which 45 North Vietnamese and eight American soldiers died early on the birthday of Buddha, who enjoined reverence for life...
Next, Samuel Rubin, president of the league, singled and later moved to third, where he was held up by his dog Phillipe, the third-base coach. Then everybody sang Happy Birthday to Mrs. Rubin, with Leopold Stokowslci, 85, conducting. It was Softball of the Absurd, as presented in Manhattan's Central Park by the male (Wolf's Gang) and the female (Beethoven's Bunnies) members of Stoky's American Symphony Orchestra. Observed the maestro, who played guest of honor: "It certainly brings out a different side of their personalities from what I see in Carnegie Hall...
...Minh's birthday proper, the U.S. had another surprise: the first purposeful bombing of downtown Hanoi. Carrier-based Navy planes hit the 32,000-kw. power plant only 2,000 yards from the city's center that supplies some 20% of the nation's electricity. Flying through fierce antiaircraft fire, seven U.S. planes went down, and MIGs came up to defend the Communist capital. Four of the Russian jets were shot down in dogfights, and in raids the next day Thailand-based Air Force planes shot down another five MIGs. That brought to 69 the number...
...befits an institution that began business under a colonial buttonwood tree,* the venerable New York Stock Exchange now observes only every 25th birthday. For its 150th anniversary in 1942, trading halted one hour. It was a desultory day, with only 216,620 shares traded, and the Dow-Jones industrials ended...
...Haack, who this fall succeeds Keith Funston as president, is whether floor trading can be handled more efficiently by machine than by men; the exchange is considering moving to nearby New Jersey with automated equipment to escape New York City's stock-transfer tax. By its 200th birthday celebration, the speeches may well be made by computers...