Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...across the Yugoslav territory that separates Albania from the other satellites. Last week, as Khrushchev's jet TU-104 streaked toward Tirana with Tito's consent, the Soviet leader wired: "As I am flying over your territory, I send you warmest congratulations on your [67th] birthday...
...night of May 5, with Democrats across the country preparing to gather in observation of ex-President Harry S. Truman's 75th birthday, a dozen national figures met for a pre-birthday dinner in the home of Oklahoma's Senator Mike Monroney on Washington's 32nd Street. It was an amiable, comfortable evening, with little serious political shop talk. But as it neared an end, one Democratic patriarch turned to the patriarchal guest of honor. Said House Speaker Sam Rayburn, 77, to Harry Truman: "Let me drop you downtown." From that offer came a political compact, soon...
This is not the usual procedure however; 66 is the official retirement age at Harvard. A professor must retire "after the completion of the academic year in which he has reached his 66 birthday," unless he is specifically asked to remain by the Corporation...
...transferred out of Algeria. De Gaulle's Governor General, Paul Delouvrier, constantly reminds the Ultras that "policy is made in Paris, even for Algiers," last week bluntly told "those who would divide us" to "shut up or get out." The Ultras are still strong enough to spoil a birthday, but not to wreck a government...
Some 50,000 U.S. citizens, attending 66 celebrations across the nation (top tariff: $100 a plate), paid high tribute to Harry Truman on his 75th birthday. The No. 1 dinner, linked up with 15 other parties by a closed-circuit TV network, took place at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, where about 2,000 Democratic Party faithful-plus a smattering of G.O.P. well-wishers -heard their jaunty birthday boy josh and rejoin in top form. From Detroit, Eleanor Roosevelt declared that "the character of my friend was proved on that terrible day [when F.D.R. died] . . . Later I thrilled to watch...