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...Post reception attracted New York developer Donald Trump, Walter Cronkite, Sen. Alphonse D'Amato (R-N.Y.), and new Post owner Peter Kalikow. D'Amato, accompanied by New York delegate Lionel Hampton on the vibes, led the room in a round of "Happy Birthday" for Post Executive Vice President Dan Cremins...
When David turned ten last year, he was finally old enough for a Nelson family ritual, deer hunting. He had waited impatiently for the birthday. David's father had not been allowed to hunt with his father until he was ten. The waiting and expectation give importance to the ritual. David and his father went up on Old Brammer Ridge to search for a buck with antlers big enough to be legal. "We got to where we's goin'," David remembers. "We couldn't find no deer." There were more deer when he was a boy, Larry told...
...recently Katie never went to sleep without her father taking her on a voyage of fantasy. Katie recites the stories as though she heard them last night. "Once there was a girl named Princess Leah, and her cousin Princess Katie came to a party she was having for her birthday. They hd just finished playing pin the tail on the shooting star when out of the sky came a space dragon, and it came down and took Princess Katie up with Princess Leah to the star castle, and they were captured...
...world's most famous prisoner celebrated his 70th birthday last week in Pollsmoor Prison, outside Cape Town. Isolated from the other inmates, Nelson Mandela refused the government's offer of a special six-hour birthday visit from his family as a way of protesting the plight of thousands of black activists jailed in South Africa. Meanwhile, Pretoria ordered roadblocks around the prison and clamped down on tributes to Mandela, including outdoor meetings, a private tea party and a concert at the University of Cape Town, which ended with the arrival of riot police in gas masks...
...been held in Pollsmoor's hospital wing. Each year he is allowed 30 visits of 40 minutes ; apiece, and he may write and accept one letter a week. Although his wife Winnie collected 50,000 greetings on his behalf last week, Mandela received his limit of twelve birthday cards...