Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation's 200th birthday, it behooves us to do more than blow a trumpet and beat a drum. We should use the occasion to take stock of what is wrong with this country as well as what is right. Miller's play can help us do this. As the AST's director, Michael Kahn, said in an interview a few weeks ago, "I wanted to do The Crucible for our Bicentennial year. I think it's a terrific play, both hopeful for and critical of America...
...biggest birthday cake ever made-RWB icing and five stories high -will be open for gazing July 3 at Philadelphia's Memorial Hall, and later for grazing (200,000 Sara Lee servings...
...business revival has just celebrated its first birthday. It was in May 1975, after more than a year of falling production and rising joblessness-accompanied for much of the time by double-digit inflation-that the economy turned upward. In the year since then, the economy has come a long way back, but in some important respects it is still below its pre-recession peaks. Industrial production, for example, is about 12% above its recession low of April 1975, but 3.4% below the high of November 1973. The number of people who have jobs actually reached a record...
...jazz musician who is worth a toot knows what July 4 means. July 4 is the birthday of one of America's great founding fathers: Louis Armstrong. The life of the incomparable Satchmo spanned virtually the entire development of jazz, but that uniquely American music did not disappear with Armstrong's passing at age 71 five years ago. Indeed what is remarkable about jazz is that its original face has never been lost. The music is no older than the century, and many of its fathers are still alive and playing. Painting and classical music progress sequentially, discarding earlier styles...
...Viking 1's robot lander to begin the search for life on the red planet. But true to its name, Mars was being belligerent. The first landing site in the Chryse region appeared so hazardous on careful photographic analysis that Viking scientists concluded late last week that a birthday landing was out. That part of the American celebration would come somewhat later...