Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...birthday party, it could have passed as a wake. Russia's Nikolai Fedorenko slouched in his chair, appearing, if possible, more morose than usual. Britain's Lord Caradon glumly stroked his chin. In the Secretary-General's chair, U Thant looked about as happy as an undertaker. Outside San Francisco's Opera House, where 1,000,000 persons had massed in the streets to cheer the birth of the United Nations 20 years ago, fewer than 2,000 were now gathered; inside were row upon row of empty seats. Adding to the gloominess...
...Prime Ministers of many of those nations were present last week to help the mother of parliaments celebrate her 700th birthday in Westminster Hall. Led by House Speaker Sir Harry Hylton-Foster, in full-bottomed wig, black court gown trimmed in white lace and silver-buckled shoes, speakers from 41 Commonwealth legislatures entered the cavernous, 11th century hall to a flourish of trumpets from the scarlet-clad Grenadier Guards. Then came Britain's Lord Chancellor, his robe brocaded in gold, at the head of a procession of Commonwealth legislators, lace jabots at their throats. Next came the plumed platoon...
...Dempsey." The Manassa Mauler is 27 Ibs. over his 188-lb. fighting weight these days. But he walks with the same alert, catlike grace, and he still looks fit to fight his way out of a telephone booth -or most any place else. As Dempsey celebrated his 70th birthday in his Manhattan restaurant last week, they brought out a cake ablaze with a candle for each year. Jack got them all with one blow...
...parchment that Winston Churchill later called "the most famous milestone of our rights and freedom." That document was Magna Carta (Great Charter). Last week scores of bewigged and berobed British judges, in the company of dignitaries of foreign lands, gathered in London to celebrate Magna Carta's 750th birthday. The ceremonies were somber and simple. Australia's Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies reminded the listeners that Magna Carta established that "the law is king." And American Bar Association President Lewis F. Powell Jr. declared that whatever else it may have set out to be, "Magna Carta now stands...
...spot on London's Hit Parade with what the trade calls a ."religiose"-Crying in the Chapel. And were the Beatles crying any more than usual down there in 24th place with Ticket to Ride? No, no, no. For when the Queen's annual birthday honors list came out, there they were, among the 1,800 names: Ringo Starr, 24, John Lennon, 24, Paul McCartney, 22, and George Harrison, 22, all appointed members of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, thus entitled to put M.B.E. after their names and wear a silver lapel pin inscribed...