Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decision backed by the President, the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission has rejected the proposal by Philadelphia to hold the big birthday party there. The fundamental reason, says a commission spokesman, was that the city's price tag got too high...
...result (not necessarily bad) is that the U.S. will celebrate its 200th birthday in a myriad of small celebrations in towns, cities and national parks across the land...
...observes: "Happy the day when everything is going right . . . Sometimes the day is nice. When they need you time ticks away . . . Time is now that reaches your 70th birthday. That it will be a time of your life and it will be always a happy birthday...
Crackdown. Last week, the Croatian capital of Zagreb was bedecked with flower-adorned busts and portraits of Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, honoring him on his 80th birthday. But beneath the show of loyalty was a simmering political crisis. Croats are still paying heavily for an outburst of nationalist feeling that reached a climax last fall when 30,000 students went on strike in Zagreb. Seizing upon Tito's experimental program of decentralization, which offered a measure of political and fiscal autonomy to Yugoslavia's six republics, Croatian nationalists demanded their own army and airline, and separate membership...
...shows with which white society tried to teach Malcolm to hate himself, the movies and shows that have taught millions of blacks to hate themselves. There are pictures of Amos and Andy, Steppin' etchit, watermelon eating contests, and cute little Shirley Temple, as she walks into her all white birthday party, telling the slave girls. "I'll be sure to save you some cake...