Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through history, even the great and famous have found trouble with the choice of gifts. Queen Victoria was clearly desperate when, as the story goes, she presented Mount Kilimanjaro to Kaiser Wilhelm for his birthday. Yet, the grandly useless gift can be endearing, and while most Americans cannot give mountains, there are other possibilities. Among them is the sauna built for one, developed by New York's Hammacher Schlemmer as an alternative to the standard size ("because it isn't easy to find the right five people to take a sauna together"). The Dauphin of France...
...told, it was not a very happy birthday for Powell, who turned 58 last week while vacationing with his House assistant, comely Corrine Huff, 25, at his Bimini retreat in the Bahamas. After nearly running down Lynn Pelham, a contract photographer for LIFE, with the old Washington taxicab he uses for buzzing around the island, Powell brandished a shotgun, snarled, "I'll kill you if you set foot on my property." With his telephoto lens, Pelham then snapped a picture of Powell stalking angrily into his house...
...April 9, 1940. Next morning the distressed Danes saw their King Christian on horseback, riding as he always did through the streets of Copenhagen, disdainfully ignoring the German soldiers. The surge of morale produced by this simple act was incalculable. Later that year, when Christian celebrated his 70th birthday, a small badge bearing his initials on the background of the Danish flag was struck-and worn by almost every Dane as long as the war lasted...
...referred to old age in his memoirs as "ce naufrage-that shipwreck." Still steaming along, Charles de Gaulle celebrated his 76th birthday. Or rather, he did not celebrate it. Since he loathes being reminded of the passing years, De Gaulle observed the occasion simply with a hard day's work at the office. A few birthdays downstream, former U.S. Vice President John Nance Garner is well past worrying about getting old. He really did celebrate his 98th birthday as more than 100 friends and neighbors turned up to wish him well at his house in Uvalde, Texas. "When...
...Windsor Castle, the bells rang in the curfew tower, but otherwise it wasn't a very royal birthday party. Turning 18, Britain's Prince Charles simply had coffee and buns with eight friends at Scotland's Gordonstoun School, where he is cramming for his university entrance exams. Had he wanted a real birthday blowout, the lad could well have afforded it. His income from inherited properties has now been raised to $84,000 per annum. Other advantages of his official coming of age: he replaces his father as regent-designate, would directly assume his mother...