Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with his wife Lilly. The solemn exchange took place on a remote runway nearly a mile from Zurich's Kloten Airport. Corvalán was then flown to Moscow for a hero's welcome and star billing at Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev's 70th birthday party on Sunday...
...sole survivor among the big-power leaders of the past decade. Lyndon Johnson, Charles de Gaulle and Mao Tsetung are dead. The two men with whom he fashioned the concept of detente-Richard Nixon and Willy Brandt-no longer lead. Last week, as Brezhnev reached his 70th birthday, TIME'S Moscow correspondent Marsh Clark cabled this assessment of the Soviet leader...
...that of Stalin or Mao. Brezhnev is comfortable in his hero's role, but, particularly in the Soviet Union, fame is fleeting. Stalin's name is not often mentioned, and Khrushchev's has been expunged from the official language. Yet when Khrushchev celebrated his own 70th birthday in 1964, it was Brezhnev who led the cheering: "Dear Nikita Sergeyevich, your marvelous deeds have won you the love of all our party, the whole Soviet people. This fills our hearts with joy and pride in you." Six months later. Khrushchev was unceremoniously pitched out of office, and Brezhnev...
...studied sexual mores in Samoa and earned an assistant curatorship at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. Half a century and many field trips later, the anthropologist is still working for the museum. To commemorate her 50th anniversary on staff, which happened to coincide with her 75th birthday, the museum established a fund to endow a chair in her name and to reorganize its anthropology collection. Mead plans to help raise the target of $5 million, at least when she can spare the time. She is working on a new book.Letters from the Field, and is still traveling...
Would-be muckrakers find little dirt in O'Neill's record. He has voted right, by liberal Democratic standards, on virtually every major bill before the House. Tongsun Park paid heavily for a birthday party for O'Neill, but Tip got none of the money...