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...promoters of the holiday apparently were caught by surprise. They had hoped to remove Arizona from the list of three states (the others are New Hampshire and Montana) that do not observe the civil rights leader's birthday as a holiday. A major reason for the rejection: voter confusion. One proposal called for trading Columbus Day for the King holiday; it lost 3 to 1. The other would have simply added King's birthday to the list of state holidays; it failed by only 17,000 out of 1 million votes cast...
...Birthday candles were melted on to tables for a "seance effect," Rhett says, and the event turned into a dance party...
...During the time the Saudi Government was talking about war and cancelled the festival days, here we had a festival for five days. The Americans are sending 300,000 people to Saudi Arabia to be ready to fight. We are here for a birthday...
...tributes for Ike's 100th birthday last week focused on his career as "the most successful general of the greatest war ever fought," to use biographer Stephen Ambrose's words. Ambrose goes further, suggesting that Ike is destined to be ranked "with Wilson and the Roosevelts as one of the four truly great Presidents of the 20th century." He is the most famous American soldier of all time. He commanded 4.5 million men in combat, more than any other man in history...
...forced to resign this month after the press revealed his romance with fellow Cabinet member Zelia Cardoso de Mello, the Economy Minister. Their relationship became common knowledge after Cabral, who is married, and Cardoso de Mello, who is single, openly danced cheek to cheek at her 37th birthday party. Cardoso de Mello's love life had become the subject of speculation after a reporter spotted an engagement ring on her finger...