Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, Washington's Moslems have had to spread their prayer rugs wherever they might, for they had no mosque. On Jan. 11, 1949, the 1,379th birthday of Mohammed, the cornerstone for the capital's first mosque was laid at Massachusetts Ave. and Belmont Road. It was slow abuilding. Egypt anted up its share of the cost, but other Moslem countries dallied...
From the White House in Washington, Harry Truman, still playing host to Iran's Premier Mossadegh and trying to mediate the British-Iranian oil squabble, remembered to send "felicitations and sincere good wishes" to the Shah of Iran on his 32nd birthday...
Local Communists in the village of Vallauris, France, opened their purses to pay for a 70th birthday party honoring Fellow Member Pablo Picasso. From Paris, France's No. 2 Communist, Jacques Duclos, sent greetings and added that the party "is proud to count in its ranks the great artist that...
...marriage proved dismally anticlimactic: "It was to have shone-apart from all else in my life. And it really was only part of the nightmare, after all. You never once held me in your arms and called me your wife. In fact, the whole affair was like my silly birthday. I had to keep on making you remember...
Buck explained that Shapley is stepping down because of a University rule providing for the automatic retirement of administrative officials when they reach their 66th birthday...