Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indeed, Nixon was so fully in command as the showdown session on Watergate approached that Frost's producer, John Birt, walked up to the partygoing interviewer before Frost's own birthday bash in Los Angeles and declared, "David, I don't think you're up to this." His assessment galvanized Frost. In the days that followed, Frost pored over his briefing books and endured hours of sessions in which a staffer attempted to answer each Frost question the way Nixon might. With his homework properly done, Frost proved that he was indeed a formidable adversary for Nixon. The British charmer...
...50th birthday present to himself and "to give something back to my music," Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich is giving a dozen free concerts round the world. But not at home in the U.S.S.R., which he left in 1974 on a two-year visa and to which he does not plan to return until he is guaranteed full artistic freedom. One invitation he accepted was to play with the student orchestra at Brown, in honor of the inauguration of the university's new president, Howard Swearer. So well subscribed was the event that Rostropovich found himself playing the Saint...
Lowell Thomas just keeps on schussing-even on his 85th birthday. A ski trip to the Canadian Rockies ended a 50,000-mile honeymoon for the peripatetic broadcaster and his second wife, Marianna Munn, 49. The couple married on Jan. 5 and wandered through the South Seas, the Far East, the Himalayas, Alaska and other exotic spots that Thomas has visited in his 60 or so years of roving the globe. Now back home in Pawling, N. Y., he is hard at work on his 54th book-the second volume of his autobiography, So Long Until Tomorrow-and is also...
McDonald's tries to turn its stores into homes away from home. One restaurant in Villa Park, Ill., caters 600 birthday parties a month in a special room for children whose parents do not want kids spilling ice cream on the dining-room rug. Most stores now have "activities representatives" who organize kiddie and senior citizen programs and manage nearby playgrounds; this approach has disarmed communities that initially objected to a McDonald's in the neighborhood. In general, says President Schmitt, "we used to think you needed 50,000 people to support a McDonald...
...race) for the overflow crowd's attention. And I wish I could explain in detail how the Honeywell Computer made sense out of all the names, numbers and times at the finish line, or list even a few of the t-shirt slogans (which ranged from HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOM to HACK'S BAR to ARTHRITISto STOP THE B-1 BOMBER).But since I only have 70 lines, I can't tell you all those stories. Instead, I'll have to concentrate on two runners: a Turk named Veli Bally (or Eeli Bally, depending on your command of Turkish...