Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...University of Nebraska's championship football team. "He taught his team to play football the right way," explained one second-grade gridiron fan. Another contender not in public office was John Wayne ("He is one of the few actors who has not appeared on the screen in his birthday suit. As a minor I protest against all these R and X movies"). There was even evidence of Women's Lib on the grammar school level. A fifth-grader drew Gloria Steinem "because she made me feel proud that I am a woman." Another girl, three years younger...
...also the first time that an Israeli Premier had ventured into the East bloc for official meetings with Communist leaders. Mrs. Meir, who celebrated her 74th birthday last week, had begun the trip in an exuberant mood, fending off newsmen's questions about the prospects for her visit with a Jewish proverb: "The power of prophecy is given to children and fools." Under leaden Bucharest skies, she reviewed a goose-stepping honor guard. Rumanian girls in peasant costume presented her with flowers and then lustily kissed her startled coterie of three male aides...
...1950s, before the telly really took over, all England seemed addicted to a BBC radio program called The Goon Show, which was the making of Actor Peter Sellers, among others. When the Goons got together again to do a special program for the BBC's 50th birthday, Sellers brought four "friends": Prince Philip, Princess Margaret, Lord Snowdon and Princess Anne. Another royal Goon fan, serving with the navy in the Mediterranean, sent his regrets: "Last night my hair fell out, my knees dropped off, and I turned green with envy at the thought of my father and sister being...
...clothes muttered to one another in Old World accents. Inside, under a lithograph of Christ, rested a $5,000 burnished bronze casket festooned with flowers and surrounded by heavy, silently angry men and weeping women. Within it lay Joey Gallo, assassinated three days before as he celebrated his 43rd birthday in a Lower East Side clam house called Umbertos (TIME, April 17). His mother keened: "My Joey! What did they do to my Joey...
...morning of his 31st birthday, Eddie Ginley visits his psychiatrist. "What do you want to do?" the doctor inquires. Eddie's answer is immediate: "I want to write The Maltese Falcon. I want to record Blue Suede Shoes. And I want to play Las Vegas...