Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dining room for a reception, he did his best to make up for his shadow's overzealousness. The Russian delegation had pointedly refrained from applause, and Vishinsky, when the President was introduced to the delegates, hesitated until the last second before shaking hands. But after a U.N. birthday cake (a rum and butter cake which bore five candles) was cut, and champagne poured, Truman walked across to the Soviet Foreign Minister, shook hands with him again and spent seven minutes in animated and obviously pleasant conversation...
Last Dec. 21 Joseph Stalin celebrated his 70th birthday...
Right through last month Soviet newspapers continued to print columns of birthday salutations to Stalin. Under the heading "Flow of Greetings," Izvestia recently printed birthday best wishes from the workers of the Kilyazinsk fish cannery, of the Azerbaijan S.S.R., from the physical culture workers of Minsk and from the employees of Kharkov's vinegar factory...
...radio station will take time out to sip tea with Annex administrators and other friends of the group, who have pushed its progress through its short life. "No special program will be broadcast," Elizabeth Bibber '52, business manager, said yesterday. "In fact, the exact date of our 1000th birthday is hard to determine, but we know it was sometime this week," she added...
...this week celebrated its fifth birthday. Most fitting anniversary present came from the member nations through their delegates in the Assembly. By an overwhelming majority in the Political and Security Committee, the delegates voted for the U.S.-sponsored resolution to give the veto-free Assembly power over a U.N. police force (TIME, Oct. 23). Henceforth, if action against aggression is stalled in the veto-bound Security Council, the Assembly can meet within 24 hours to set U.N. armed forces into motion...