Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...point the Secret Police seemed as if they were willing to honor their promises to recognize the human rights of Elizabeth and me to marry and come to America. On Dec.2, 1969, my birthday, my secret service interrogator, Lieutenant X, whom we dubbed Doctor Strangelove, tried the soft line, let me set a chicken dinner with him in the interrogation room, allowed me to write a letter to Elizabeth in her cell (which she answered) and promised me that I could visit her. I waited for over a year for that promise to be kept and when...
...vehicles that wound their way through Israel's Negev Desert last week formed a kind of mobile Who's Who. Led by President Zalman Shazar and Premier Golda Meir, the pilgrims were bound for the Negev kibbutz of Sde Boker to pay homage, on his 85th birthday, to former Premier David Ben-Gurion...
...Wrong Note. Jaunty and jovial, Nixon also found time for less weighty matters. He attended a sentimental 75th birthday party for Mamie Eisenhower, where his piano rendition of Happy Birthday sounded only one wrong note. He hosted a retirement party for Douglas Cornell, 65, an Associated Press correspondent who has covered seven Presidents in 43 years of White House assignments. Nixon ribbed his sometimes critical press followers with a backhanded compliment. "When I have to write anything, it's hard work," he said. "That's why I admire newspaper correspondents. You just write off the top of your...
...Allows the President to abolish student deferments for men who enter college beginning this semester and thereafter. Those in college now may hold deferments until the end of their fourth college year or their 24th birthday, whichever comes first. Students drafted while in college may postpone induction until the end of the academic term...
...gene mutation that occurred centuries ago in Africa. The estimated 2,000,000 Americans who carry one defective gene usually show no symptoms of the disease. The one child in 500 who inherits a sickle-cell gene from each parent has barely an even chance of seeing his 20th birthday and, if he does survive into middle age, is likely to be crippled...