Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dwight Eisenhower had a happy birthday (62) and a lively week. He 1) made his fourth foray into the South, evoking a resounding echo of enthusiasm, 2) hit back hard at Harry Truman's weird charges that Eisenhower is an isolationist and biased against minority groups...
Texas & Korea. Heading west, Eisenhower traveled across his native Texas, saluted by cheers and chants of "Happy Birthday." At Waco he recalled a recent speech in which he had said that unless there is a change, the Government would be telling the housewife how to wash her dishes. Well, he had hit closer to home than he realized, because "look at what I found out: the Department of Agriculture . . . has already prepared a 32-page booklet on the subject of dishwashing. Now, someone whose salary is paid by the taxpayers' money made a remarkable discovery . . He says dishes should...
...nearby, free Hong Kong, which is a good barometer of Mao's power and popularity, there was hardly any show of Communist colors on Oct. 1, third anniversary of Red China's founding. But ten days later, on the Double Tenth-the 41 st birthday of the Chinese Republic-100,000 Nationalist flags went up over the slum huts, shops, taxis, buses, junks and offices of Hong Kong's Chinese, in the biggest spontaneous display of pro-Nationalist sentiment since China fell...
...then retreated backwards, at first quickly, as from the too-near presence of a strange nurse, but then more and more slowly. Her eyes, fixed on the baby, expressed both desire and regret. The same expression can be seen on the faces of polite children who, at a birthday party, too quickly refuse a second slice of cake...
Celebrating his 81st birthday at the Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland, former Secretary of State Cordell Hull got a birthday cake, spent the rest of the day reading, listening to the radio, visiting with his wife and friends...