Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second birthday. Mom and Dad marched me into Smilkstein's on South Moger in Kisco, and asked the man what he had in sneakers my size...
...Warren Burger and Justice John Harlan. Pointing out that a Selective Service regulation makes it a continuing duty to register, they argued that the crime of not registering is also continuing. Wrote White: "The majority holds that when dawn breaks on the unregistered male. six days after his 18th birthday, his crime is complete and ended: though the Act specifically declares that he is still liable for induction, he has no obligation to take the step which makes that induction possible. I for one cannot ascribe such inconsistent intent to Congress...
...only 54 once, so Jackie Gleason got together with 800 or so of his closest friends for a monster birthday party at the Diplomat Hotel in Hollywood, Fla. It cost $25 a plate, but it was worth it; amid the celebration came a phone call from the President. The White House gagwriters had obviously been at work: "The operator said we had a bad connection," Richard Nixon told the Great One. "I was afraid your Norton [Jackie's bumbling TV sidekick] had gone to work for the telephone company." Replied Gleason: "If you'd like...
...allowed the Chicago Seven and their lawyers to goad him into displaying an obvious bias in favor of the prosecution. By contrast. Judge Murtagh so far has stoically put up with Panther provocations day after day, and even adjourned the trial just when the defendants wanted to commemorate the birthday of Panther Huey Newton. He had clearly studied the experience of colleagues-like U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Harold R. Medina, who says: "With these disruptive people, the more you kick them around or the more you clear the court, the more unruly they become." Medina speaks from experience...
...vagabond gypsy kid." Neither was true. Or both. "I may have been reared strangely compared with other kids, but I had a swell time growing up. Really." Childhood was visiting movie sets where Judy was filming or where Liza's father, Vincente Minnelli, was directing. It was enormous birthday parties, "all with the same hired clown." It was on the set watching Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse dancing, being spoiled by Robert Mitchum and Eleanor Parker while visiting her father on location, being fascinated not one whit by her mother's talent because, after all, "she sang...