Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were elected to Congress this time," he told his wife Mildred, "would not change these farm laws-they're all for subsidies." So Farmer Yankus applied to Australia ("the least socialistic country in the world")* for an immigration permit and, having won it, last week on his 40th birthday asked the U.S. State Department to issue passports to himself, his wife and their three children. "I didn't arrive at this decision lightly," explained Yankus, a somber, earnest six-footer who was raised in Chicago by immigrant Lithuanian parents, saved through his early life to fulfill his dream...
Next day Dulles began wandering out of the presidential suite (two bedrooms, living room, dining room, kitchen, bath) to pay early-morning calls on other patients in nearby rooms. On his 71st birthday-Feb. 25-he had not one but three parties. Before noon the hospital staff brought him two presents:1) a big birthday cake, 2) a "cheering" report on his progress at the end of his first week of radiation treatments...
That afternoon six members of his State Department office staff came over bearing gifts and chitchat. The day's final birthday party came when wife Janet arrived with an armful of presents to head up a quiet family affair...
Picking up his telephone in Milwaukee one August night in 1957, Wisconsin's Edward William Proxmire offered particular congratulations to Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson on Johnson's 49th birthday. Boomed the Democrat who had just won Joe McCarthy's seat in an upset election: "Senator Johnson, I've got the biggest birthday present of 'em all for you; me." Last week Bill Proxmire became an Indian giver. Incensed over what he considers Johnson's highhanded conservative control of the Senate, Liberal Proxmire went into rebellion...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24--Secretary of State John Foster Dulles will observe his 71st birthday tomorrow fighting cancer and fighting communism...