Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elder Statesman Herbert Hoover, clear-eyed, poker-backed and 85 this week, returned to New York City from San Francisco to celebrate his birthday and catch up on his awesome workload (writing four books, answering scores of letters, being chairman of the Boys Clubs of America). That afternoon he went to Yankee Stadium to toss in the first ball in a nostalgic two-inning game between Yankee oldtimers and their erstwhile opponents from the National League foes...
...Britain last week, commercial television (never to be confused with the state-supervised BBC) celebrated its fifth birthday by repaying the last shilling of the ?550,000 government loan that got the enterprise started. Despite such success, critics carped that a Briton's TV set was no longer his castle. The big payoff, wrote the London Evening Standard, was financed by U.S. shows. "Not only are there too many imported programmes on the home screen, but our homebred programmes are becoming more and more influenced by America...
...Howard, Agnes de Mille. Swaddled in wrinkled black tights and shapeless pink top. Teacher Rambert would roam the practice room correcting ("Long the arms"), scolding ("You use your leg like a mop"), occasionally doing exuberant cart wheels across the floor. Still as exuberant as ever, she now celebrates each birthday by doing a "fish dive" into the arms of the nearest partner...
...Shaw's own sexual history was an odd one. He lost his chaste treasure on his 29th birthday, to the importunities of a widow lady named Jenny Patterson, who won by her persistence an immortality in such parentheses as this. After this momentous event Shaw slept around casually and childlessly for several years, until in his middle forties he married a "green-eyed Irish millionairess" after she had nursed him through a serious illness. After the wedding, in accordance with certain prejudices of his wife's, he gave up sex forever, and the two of them dwelt together, chaste...
...current can make occurs on the coast of Peru, which owes its cool, foggy but almost rainless climate to the cold Peru Current sweeping up from Antarctica. Once in every ten years or so, a current of warm water called El Nino (because it appears near Christmas, the birthday of El Nino, the Christ child) creeps stealthily down the coast. With it come tropical rains and disaster. Floods roar through dry valleys. Buildings not designed for rain leak or collapse. Worst of all, the warm water, which is only 100 feet deep, drives cold-water fish below the surface. Peru...