Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tsafendas and wrestled him to the floor. Others, including three doctors, rushed to try to revive Verwoerd. But it was to no avail. Dr. Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, architect of apartheid and South Africa's Prime Minister for eight years, was dead-just two days short of his 65th birthday...
...frail tykes born two months premature, Venezuela's Prieto Quintuplets have developed into quite a gang. "They are terrible," groaned Mamá Inés Maria Cuervo de Prieto as the five boys celebrated their third birthday with the neighbor children in Maracaibo. "Anyone who stays with them for more than one hour will go out of his mind. When they're together, they're a catastrophe." The trouble is, sighed Mamá, they're always together. "Each is different," she mused. "Mario is the strongest. Otto gets mad easy. Juan José is the smallest...
...Hellenes had the satisfaction of presenting the winner's silver cup to a countryman, George Andreadis. Later, Constantine exchanged his striped boating shirt and sneakers for a more formal outfit, and rushed back to the royal summer home on Corfu to help the royal family celebrate the 20th birthday of his wife, Queen Anne-Marie. His birthday present? "A state secret," said the King...
...Birthday Table. As for Johnson himself, the best that the week had to offer came the following day. It was his 58th birthday, and he celebrated it in the way he likes best-down on the ranch. Temporarily relaxing her watchfulness over her husband's expanding waistline, Lady Bird set a birthday table that included barbecued beef, baked beans, two cakes and homemade peach ice cream. "No hill-country rancher could ever have a better birthday," said the President. "I just can't feel sorry for myself...
...continued right on feeling philosophical too. The fact is that Johnson seems to have grown a mite more mellow since his last birthday, and no longer believes that he can leave behind him a society that has resolved every one of its crises. "The President always has many problems," he told newsmen. "They change from day to day and week to week. But we have none that we don't feel confident that we can find the answer...