Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sidcup to get the papers that prove who he is. The bum feels called upon to assert his sanity by bursting into prideful indignation at vaguely appropriate moments. His finicky concern about his shoes, especially, reminds one of the bums in Waiting for Godot. He can't remember his birthday...
...before her 19th birthday, she opened on Broadway in The Boy Friend, and overnight she was such a star that Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe thought they were simmering in luck when they got her to sign for My Fair Lady...
...months, Mike Grost had only a three-word vocabulary ("mama," "daddy," "no"), though the average at that age is about ten. His parents stopped worrying three months later, when he started speaking complete sentences; by his second birthday he could count to 100. At three he interrupted a story his mother was reading to him. "Why don't you ever let me read to you?" asked Mike, and was allowed to do just that. When Mike's kindergarten teacher asked the class to draw a picture on any subject, he mapped the solar system and labeled...
...suburban St. Louis garden last week all showed the same enthusiasm. All of them had given birth without general anesthetics in St. Mary's Hospital, where more (1,182) babies have been delivered by natural child birth than in any other hospital in the U.S. The fifth-birthday celebration of St. Mary's natural-childbirth program last week reflected the growing acceptance of a method that was first tried (and denounced) in the U.S. less than 20 years ago, and is now at least a part-time practice in maternity wards from Long Island to Los Angeles...
...estimated 57? an hour for every worker, gives U.A.W. members essentially the same wage and fringe benefits obtained from Chrysler: earlier retirement, increased pensions, continuation of the annual productivity raise and more paid vacation time. In addition, there was, as Reuther phrased it, "attractive chocolate frosting to the happy-birthday cake we got at Chrysler"-a $25 to $100 annual Christmas bonus for Ford's 130,000 hourly-rate employees, probably beginning...