Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mother to the movies. Three years ago he found himself "getting a bit frail" and tried to break off the liaison. Jacqueline objected; there were telephone calls, and a somewhat ruffled Sir Strati had to confess to his wife to prevent Jacqueline's turning up while a birthday party for his grandchildren was in progress...
Wanting to celebrate his 38th birthday by getting away from it all, Egypt's blimp-sized ex-King Farouk put on his sunglasses, boarded a 22-seat bus and rolled through the Alps into the tiny principality of Liechtenstein. His fellow riders: his 19-year-old daughter Princess Ferial, two bodyguards, a chauffeur, a maid and an anonymous raven-tressed playmate. Explained His Corpulent Majesty: "People think I and my entourage are an ordinary tourist party...
...happy coincidence with George Washington's birthday, Crimeds will be feasting tomorrow with the Amorazons, a cult of aboriginal women located in Southern Haiti...
...older brother, Sigismund, is counselor at the German embassy in London; his younger brother, Magnus, is program-control manager of the Chrysler Corp.'s new missile division in Detroit. Last week in a comfortable Oberaudorf apartment, Baron Magnus von Braun, tanned and vigorous, celebrated his 80th birthday, marked by a four-page letter from Wernher and a gift of twelve bottles of Rhine wine. Said he, fingering his white walrus mustache in wonderment-now mixed with pride-at his son's strange fascination with space: "I don't know where his talent comes from...
Bill rarely cracked a book outside the classroom, but he graduated at 17 in the upper third of his class. There was nothing to do but hang around the farm until his next birthday, when he would be eligible for a job at Bethlehem Steel. Then, just before the birthday, Bill got a letter from one of his father's friends: How would he like to take advantage of his size and go to work at a race track? Because it seemed as good a way as any to get away from home, Bill boarded a bus for Charles Town...