Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lights and topped with a golden-haired angel in a blue brocade dress. The menu for Christmas dinner called for turkey, corn-bread dressing, string beans with almonds, sweet potatoes with marshmallow topping, rolls, cranberry salad, ambrosia and angel-food cake. The family celebrated Lady Bird's 54th birthday on Dec. 22. And even though Lyndon Johnson was putting in non-recuperative hours-conferring with Cabinet officers, working on his State of the Union message, examining and reexamining the budget requests-there was an air of almost leisurely good will around the ranch...
...seemed to be going to his comrade, Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev. Ever since they toppled Nikita Khrushchev from power two years ago, Soviet leaders have rhapsodized about the virtues of "collective leadership" and ranted against Nikita's "cult of personality." Last week on the occasion of his 60th birthday, Brezhnev was made a Hero of the Soviet Union. In a rare event, his leonine likeness stared enigmatically from Pravda and special editions of the other Moscow newspapers. Was Brezhnev actually fostering his own little cult...
...book begins with Marshall's appointment as Chief of Staff on Sept. 1, 1939, the day Hitler's armor moved into Poland, and ends on Dec. 31, 1942, with his 62nd birthday party (sherry and cake) in the Pentagon-and with Rommel still in Africa and the Red army just hanging on at Stalingrad. Between those dates lay a Pikes Peak of paper. This has been industriously mined and smelted down by his official historian, Dr. Forrest C. Pogue, combat historian in World War II and currently director of the George C. Marshall Research Center, a private foundation...
...beast in the bushes, only to discover that he had bagged one of General Francisco Franco's hunting dogs. Otherwise, the partridge shoot at the Spanish state hunting preserve near Ciudad Real went smoothly, if somewhat noisily, as Host Franco, looking tanned and robust, observed his 74th birthday. President Tomas apologized about the dog, but maybe someone should have apologized to the birds. The twelve guns in the party brought down 1,300 red partridges...
...preparing his home-grown annual music festival. Bell's camera crews spent seven weeks with Menotti. They peeked in as he attended rehearsals, chatted with visitors in three languages, and finally paraded ecstatically through congratulatory mobs in Spoleto's town square on the night of his birthday. Musically, the program equaled anything that Bell was ever able to do in the studio, with Sviatoslav Richter as the pianist in the Shostakovich Quintet and Zubin Mehta conducting the Verdi Requiem and a stunning new production of Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande...