Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Double Six. Sukarno believes in some of the hocus-pocus himself. He always hides on his birthday, the sixth of June, because it is an unlucky number ("double six"). This year obviously was the worst of all. His birthday was 6/6/66. Long before the dreaded double double six, however, Sukarno's luck had run out. He made his biggest mistake in February. He fired Nasution as Defense Minister and brought in two proCommunists to take his place. In the confusion that followed, the army had to come up with a new leader to fight the Bung. It chose Suharto...
...villa by Bavaria's Tegernsee, a West German industrialist recently celebrated the 18th birthday of his daughter with an intimate party for 100. The 20-ft.-long, damask-covered buffet table was laden with baked Prague ham, Alpine trout stuffed with Iranian caviar, roast venison from the Black Forest, Texas rattlesnake meat, capon breasts and small partridges on toast, Stuttgart quail, alligator soup, Strasbourg pâté de foie gras and aged black Chinese eggs. For hors d'oeuvres there were salted jasmine flowers, candied silkworms, toasted grasshoppers and grilled African honeybee. The wines were...
...Osborne is a frenetic machine gunner with words, Harold Pinter is the coolest of snipers. The rooms in which most of Pinter's plays take place crackle with laconic menace. In The Birthday Party, which has echoes of Hemingway's The Killers, two agents come to a rooming house, rough up one of the lodgers, and then take him for a ride. No explanation. Pinter knows that violence is more terrifying without reasons. No victim knows his hour, no executioner the source of his orders...
...quietly marked her 86th birthday at her home in Easton, Conn., 27 states joined in celebrating Helen Keller Day. Among the many good wishes was one from Lady Bird Johnson: "It must give you enormous satisfaction to look back on what you have achieved, which is nothing less than a Magna Carta of opportunity for the handicapped. We are all very much your debtor in a way that cannot be repaid...
Another nonagenarian merchant finally called it a career last week. One week after his acquaintance and competitor Sebastian Spering Kresge retired at 98 as chairman of S. S. Kresge Co. (TIME, July 1), William Thomas Grant celebrated his 90th birthday by announcing that he was relinquishing the titles of chairman and director of the W. T. Grant...