Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...among many other things, the U.N.'s first military commander in chief. So, in honor of what would have been his 85th birthday, his widow Jean joined city officials in dedicating a Manhattan street and park bounding U.N. headquarters as General Douglas Mac-Arthur Plaza...
...proclaim: "This was a good encounter-there wasn't a single jarring note." Still, De Gaulle has a press conference scheduled for Feb. 4, and Erhard knows as well as anyone the general's penchant for pyrotechnics in these semiannual pronunciamentos. "Remember that I have my birthday on Feb. 4," Erhard cracked to his host before leaving. "I don't want to have any unpleasant surprises that...
...round face unsmiling above the five medals, the six-line biography describing his rise to Chairman of the Council of Ministers and First Party Secretary. Even the fellow's inspirational quote on the back gave way to an anonymous poem praising party modesty. Thus, by having his birthday wiped from the state calendar, did Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev become an "unperson...
...Nazis invaded Russia and didn't bother to come out until four days later, by which time Hitler's hordes had the Red Army reeling all along the Russian front. But someone high in the Kremlin must recall old Joe with respect. Stalin's birthday (Dec. 21) is observed in the same Soviet calendar that has made Nikita an unperson...
...warm summer night on Chicago's South Side, half a dozen such strays congregate at Lou's Bar near the university to celebrate the 25th birthday of their good friend, a very cool young man named Daniel Conn. A little earlier, Conn had watched a nearby house burn down. Although one of his friends tried to rescue them, three old people were killed in the fire. A little later. Conn sees two friends try to halt a shooting spree by a trio of criminals. His friends are killed. One is a woman he loves...