Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington's Birthday the group will open a tourist information booth in the State House...
...proposal went over like a leaden bear. Union leaders protested, the Democratic-controlled legislature announced it would take off a long weekend (including Lincoln's Birthday), and even the Republican Secretary of State, Frank Jordan, said his office would close for the holiday. Worse yet, the chairman of the Assembly's Revenue and Taxation Committee, Republican John Veneman, introduced tax bills markedly different from Republican Reagan's. Veneman proposed, in addition to an increase in the sales tax, which inevitably discriminates against lower-income groups, a general increase in corporate and personal income taxes...
...California Poll reported this month that 52% of the citizenry approves a reduction in state spending on higher education and 51% favors the imposition of tuition at state campuses. Reagan himself maintains a cheerful mien, admits that he is "stingy" and "stubborn." When his staff celebrated his 56th birthday last week by giving him an "economy" cake that had a 10% slice missing and only 90% of its proper allotment of candles, the Governor could only agree that it was nice to be 50.4 again...
...song before every evening meal, usually in three or four part harmony. There are six society houses--like the final clubs but non-exclusive--to give juniors and seniors a chance to get away from the dorm and to cook. Once a month every House has a birthday dinner to celebrate every member's birthday during that month. Freshmen wear beanies during the first days of classes. Tree Day officially establishes the Class and its song; it used to be insured by Lloyd's of London against rain. The classes march behind their banners and sing their songs...
That aside came at the White House showing of another presidential portrait-this one a new painting of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by New York Artist Elizabeth Shoumatoff.* On hand for the nostalgic, two-hour East Room ceremony, which commemorated the late President's 85th birthday, were three of F.D.R.'s children, Anna, Franklin Jr. and John, as well as such aging Roosevelt aides as former Attorney General Francis Biddle and F.D.R.'s personal secretary, Grace Tully. Carefully characterizing himself "not as a judge of painting, but as a judge of men," L.B.J. nonetheless could not resist noting...