Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Even before the new session began, Republicans and Democrats alike were having second thoughts about where the money would come from to finance both war and welfare. "We've got a war on our hands," said Senate G.O.P. Leader Everett Dirksen of Illinois, who celebrated his 70th birthday last week, "and I think some of these domestic programs can be scaled down." Warned Arkansas Democrat John McClellan, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee: "We are going to have to retrench and hold down new programs until the budget is under better control...
...anger. "When you took office in 1952," Maher asked accusingly, "did you expect you had a civil-service obligation to stay there forever?" Curry jumped to his feet, and gesturing angrily toward Maher, shouted his reply, concluding: "I let it be known that when I came to my 70th birthday, I would gladly walk out of office." There was, one feels, a fundamental irony, in Hayes's appeal to the other Councillors to avoid discussing personalities during the stormy meeting. For personalities was the name of the game, and, more than anyone else, Mayor Hayes should have known. They...
...YORK PHILHARMONIC YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERT (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* Leonard Bernstein conducts Shostakovich's Ninth Symphony in a tribute to the composer's 60th birthday...
...abnormally good environment" for the boys, but if they stay too long they will not be able to adjust to conditions at home. California's Nelles School al lows its boys to watch late-night movies on television, visit movie studios on field trips, attend monthly birthday parties. But some deliberately misbehave in order to stay longer and a few teachers think the place is too liberal. Declares one: "This is a lark for the boys -and we're the pushovers. The chaos is unbelievable...
...18th century English essayist Joseph Addison called it a "great magazine of mortality." For the British people, London's Westminster Abbey is also a monument of national immortality. Next week its bells will ring out to celebrate its 900th birthday. Built by Edward the Confessor on a filled-in island of thorn in the Thames River, it has over the centuries become a pantheon, the sacred environs where an enlightened empire crowns its kings and queens, and where common folk can pray. With its crowded multitude of funeral statuary, the Abbey is a kind of spiritual attic containing mementos...