Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sirica to referee this week the first full round in the battle for the White House tapes, now under subpoena by both the Senate Watergate committee and Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox. It may be among Sirica's last major decisions as a district-court judge; on his 70th birthday next March, he must decide between retirement and stepping down to senior-judge status...
Karl Augustus Menninger, M.D., celebrated his 80th birthday at a monstrous bash last week. Like many another octogenarian, he spent much of the next day rocking in his chair. But this was no porch rocker; it was the spring-backed executive chair in the busy Chicago branch office of the Menninger Foundation, an umbrella organization for a multitude of psychiatric services. By 11 a.m. Menninger had already conferred with a number of people, including a publisher who is bringing out one of his three books for 1973. Besides a technical work, Theory of Psychoanalytic Technique (Basic Books; $7.95), rewritten with...
...batting average and two months ago, while visit ing the prison for a speaking engage ment, Martin told him to "come and see me at Tiger Stadium - if you can get a pass to get out." Up for parole, LeFlore got the pass and on June 16 - his 21st birthday - went to Tiger Stadium for a tryout. "I saw him hit balls into the up per deck," says Martin. "If he was 18, you'd pay $100,000 to sign him. He's that good a prospect." Three weeks later, just a few hours after he gained...
...hotel bills. Though relentlessly drilled by tour guides on the more free-enterprise aspects of the custom in the U.S., many foreigners become hopelessly confused when the time actually arrives to tip someone. They can also get taken. Chizumi Otani, a Tokyo housewife whose U.S. visit was a 50th birthday present from her family, recently handed a $5 bill to her waitress in a San Francisco restaurant to pay for a $3.30 lunch. The waitress did not return with change, and the visitor was too polite to search her out and demand it. "I learned something-this tipping...
...nomenclatural possibilities seem irresistible: "Cattalo," after an 1880s progenitor; "bisontennial," to commemorate the nation's forthcoming 200th birthday; or perhaps "beefalo." Basolo is leaning, understandably, toward calling his breed "Basolo...