Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Happy Birthday." The strongman fell with dramatic suddenness. As the fateful week opened, the government propaganda machine was still repetitiously insisting that the rebellion was about to collapse, that loyalist troops had retaken the rebel stronghold of Córdoba. But Peron's government, not the rebellion, was about to collapse...
Otto J. Bachman, who last night celebrated his 25th birthday, is the first German holder of the James Bryant Conant--Class of 1928 Scholarship. A student at the Free University of Berlin, Bachman is now living in a five-man suite in Eliot House...
...Paris With Hunger. Now a 55-year-old retired captain (Annapolis '23), father John McCutchen first invaded his wife's kitchen in San Francisco in 1932; between "fiddling with cake-baking," he roamed the city's fabled restaurants, pored over cookbooks. For Dick's tenth birthday party he whipped out a succulent Lobster Newburg ("not exactly for a kid's stomach, but that's what he wanted"). Permanently intrigued, Dick thenceforth stirred while "The Skipper" mixed the local delicacies of Manila, Tsingtao or New Orleans. In Panama, on lazy Saturday afternoons, the gourmets caught...
...Johore Bahru, Malaya, Major General Sir Ibrahim ibni Almarhum Sultan Abu Bakar, better known as the Sultan of Johore, began a weeklong, million-dollar party to celebrate his 82nd birthday and 60 years of rule on the throne of the Malay state. During the festivities, his Sultanah, a Rumanian beauty named Marcella Mendl, who is the Sultan's fourth wife, will be crowned. Pounding the floor with his silver saber for emphasis, the Sultan got things going with a surprise statement attacking his own independence-minded government and supporting British imperialism: "Where are your warships, your planes and your...
Beneath the Swords. This week Tokyo's largest department store, the Mitsukoshi. hung a selection of Yokoyama's best paintings (out of an estimated production of 10,000) for an exhibition celebrating the old man's 87th birthday. Yokoyama acknowledged the flurry by commenting: "Doctors say I have an eye in half a million." Japan's leading newspaper, Asahi, evaluating a lifetime devoted to making high standards higher, wrote: "Yokoyama is like a mountain among low hills...