Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...schools turn out plentiful trained personnel for banks. Bids were made by Teheran, Kuala Lumpur and Colombo. Finally, the Philippine delegation suavely stymied lobbying for rival cities with a reception for conference-goers and a lengthy dinner cruise around Manila Bay, ostensibly to celebrate their bank governor's birthday. That seemed to clinch things. On the final ballot next day, the Asian nations gave Manila nine votes to Tokyo's eight. In order to allow everyone to save face, an important commodity in Asia, they decided that there could be no losers, insisted on calling the vote unanimous...
...Just sentimental, I guess," Larry O'Brien, 48, said later. The new Postmaster General had received a letter from University of California Senior Delane Roberts, explaining that a birthday package with bedroom slippers, candy and a recording of Come Share My Life had been lost in the mails for eight days on the way to Roberts' girl, Bonnie Bishop, at Utah's Brigham Young University. "If it is not beneath the dignity of your office, sir," pleaded...
Roberts, "would you mind writing a personal note of apology to her about the package not arriving on time for her birthday? I wouldn't feel like a dog any longer." So O'Brien shot off a note that got right through to Bonnie, begging "Please forgive us." Bonnie said Larry was "sweet," and Delane said he's going to propose to Bonnie over Christmas vacation...
Lately Thomson has begun to change his image a little. "I am not," he protests, "a very charitable man." Nevertheless, he set up a $14 million foundation for education in Africa. In 1963, he celebrated the first birthday of his color supplement by flying a group of British businessmen to Moscow to meet Khrushchev. "Under our two systems," Thomson told Khrushchev, "I am a capitalist and have come up, and you're a Communist and have come up." Thomson takes his self-appointed role as a broker between East and West so seriously that he went to Moscow again...
...NELSON ROCKEFELLER. "Could you tell us what are the duties of the Governor of New York?" "I haven't the slightest idea." "What are you planning to give your wife for her next birthday?" "The State of Connecticut and the State of New York . . ." The Governor is interrupted: "Did I understand you correctly-you're going to give your wife . . ." Rocky: "Both states [hesitation] and the people in those two states...