Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shortly before he gathered most of his clan (5 children, 15 grandchildren) at his Long Island home for his 70th birthday party, the unblinking beacon of U.S. Socialism, Norman Thomas, loosed a flood of thoughts and recollections for veteran New York Timesman A. H. Raskin. No longer a perennial also-ran (six defeats) for the U.S. presidency, roving Lecturer-Writer-Committeeman Thomas had lost none of his tongue's facile sharpness. Eying the rigors of a world toying with the idea of "peaceful coexistence" (he calls it "competitive coexistence"), Thomas placed his bet on the West: "Our democracy...
...66th birthday, Jean Monnet took his morning stroll through the woods near his home in Luxembourg. His mind was made up. Next day, the cheery-cheeked little Frenchman who is president of the six-nation European Coal-Steel Community stood before its governors and announced his resignation. "In order to participate more freely in the realization of European unity, I shall take back my liberty," Monnet said. He was still the practicing optimist, yet not all his brave words could hide the fact that the man who was known in 1952-53 as "Mr-Europe" no longer felt at home...
...dawn on Sundays, the bells of Beirut's churches clang so loudly that good Moslems groan and cover their heads. At dawn on other mornings, the muezzins chant their calls to prayer over loudspeaker-equipped minarets, to the annoyance of sleepy Christians. Last week Muled el Nebi, the birthday of the Prophet Mohammed, rolled around. Moslems festooned Beirut in palm branches and garlands of electric lights. The climax was to be a torchlight parade...
...round out his education-when the Communist revolution caught up with him. Escaping to a Black Sea port, he signed on a ship that he thought was bound for Ceylon, but ended up in New York with 14? worth of Turkish money in his pocket, spent his 20th birthday on Ellis Island...
...never arrived in Teheran. The Shah's birthday party was called off, and 25 Iranian-piloted Thunderbolts, assisted by eight U.S. Air Force planes, began a methodical sweep over the desolate Turkoman steppe. On the fifth day of searching, three peasants saw vultures swooping over a hidden ravine in the Elburz Mountains, only 42 miles from Teheran. The peasants went to the spot and there found the bodies of the prince and his two companions...