Word: birthday
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...made from weapons of war, McDonnell has long contributed to research on ways and means of keeping the peace. In 1950, he gave the McDonnell Foundation $500,000 for just that purpose. A fervent backer of the United Nations, he not only observes the U.N.'s Oct. 24 birthday as a plant holiday but also buys full-page newspaper ads to plug his belief that all Americans should "give their time, talents and wealth in striving toward U.N. goals." At the same time, he remains convinced that the U.S. "will be criminally negligent if we wage peace except from...
...Brussels last week, the European Economic Community celebrated its tenth birthday. Since March 25, 1957, when the Treaty of Rome brought the Common Market into being, many of the Community's aspirations have remained unattained-and perhaps unattainable. Yet the record of accomplishment is impressive...
...threeday, 1,500-mile tour of Appalachia's schools. "I stood it for two days," he said, after bounding down the ramp of Air Force One and bussing Lady Bird, "but I couldn't last out the third one." To mark Andrew Jackson's 200th birthday, the Johnsons breakfasted at the Hermitage, later visited the home of James Polk, a President whose name often gets lost in the jumble between Jackson and Lincoln but who turned the U.S. into a conti nent-spanning nation by acquiring territory now comprising Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, California and parts...
...name like the Shangri-la or the Windjammer. The lights are low, and the prices are high. And what escape the customer cannot find in the alcohol and easy ambiance, the cocktail pianist provides with a painless medley of ballads, show tunes, light classics and, inevitably, a Happy Birthday...
Comforted by Affluence. Marriage is the frequent setting for these identity crises. The housewife sees it as a den of snakes, resents childbirth, old age, her husband's masculinity (or lack of it), the act of love, a male universe, and possibly George Washington's birthday. The husband is comforted neither by apples, affluence, martinis, the Democrats, nor a dead God. The partners turn inward-defeated by teenyboppers, Red China, polluted air, Kinsey's statistics, retreating hairlines, wash day, the office bastard, a pot-smoking son, Leda's swan, the snows of yesteryear. They devour each...