Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington's Birthday, both Stevens and South Dakota's Republican Senator Karl Mundt, a member of the McCarthy committee, were due at Valley Forge, Pa. to receive Freedom Foundation awards. Stevens offered Mundt a ride in his Army plane. In flight. Senator Mundt cautioned Stevens to get and read the transcript of Zwicker's testimony before he went any further in counterattacking McCarthy. The angry Stevens replied that the transcript might have been altered. Mundt assured him that the stenotype notes could be read by an expert...
...lobby for a fitting memento. After years of futile effort, they swing official Cambridge to their cause and, in 1950, the monument was built. On July third, after a two hour parade, the monument was dedicated, followed by the annual fireworks. since then, each year on Washington's Birthday, two American Legion posts and a Coast Guard color guard march through the Commons, leaving a wreath on the monument. This year the wreath was stolen a few hours after they left...
...described the Chinese dictator as seriously ill with heart disease. Whatever the rumors, Mao did not appear at a New Year's meeting of high Communist officials, and he failed to show at a committee meeting on Jan. 21, on the anniversary of Lenin's death. His birthday last Nov. 17 went entirely unnoticed in China, though Russia and the satellites whooped it up in his name...
...Duluth, the last survivor of some 2,675,000 Union Army veterans, onetime Drummer Boy Albert Woolson, chalked up another year of his sprightly second century, puffed out 107 candles on his birthday cake...
...pair of bright-eyed twins named Roy and Ray Hope celebrated their sixth birthday in Bloomington, Ind. this week in the noisy, rambunctious fashion of six-year-olds everywhere. Their father, Henry Hope, head of Indiana University's fine arts department, thought they might be "physically precocious," to which Mrs. Hope retorted: "That sounds like a father talking." Roy and Ray seemed disarmingly normal, and that was news. For they had spent the first 18 months of their lives in a "Skinner baby...