Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thought of presidential primaries unsettles her. "Never again," she says. "I've had enough. I remember sitting alone in some Ramada Inn one night in 1972 waiting for Hubert. It was my birthday. He couldn't make it, never got there, and I just started to cry." Of course, if Humphrey is nominated, she will campaign with him as she has for 33 years. But she mostly wishes it would go away. "I go back and forth. He'd make a good President. He's such a decent man. Honestly, we don't know...
...Nixon in China, a souvenir can of caviar from Russia, a bronze bust of the former President and a full display of cufflinks, matchboxes, pens and playing cards from his years in the White House. All are part of a one-room minimuseum opened on Nixon's 63rd birthday last week at the San Clemente Inn, near his California home. "Not everyone approves, but every day people thank me for doing it," said the inn's owner, Paul Presley, adding that the former President had given his blessing to the project. Despite its decidedly small scale, the exhibit...
...course it wouldn't be the same. We had always combined our parties with a "surprise" birthday celebration for our friend Shelley, whose birthday, appropriately enough, coincided with the New Year at midnight. But now Shelley is a married lady of some six months and living in Chicago...
...Dragon, was heralded in Peking last week with a literary event. Newspapers throughout the People's Republic printed two newly released poems by China's No. 1 revolutionary and poet, Chairman Mao Tse-tung. The poems, published one week after the Great Helmsman's 82nd birthday, were written just over ten years ago, as China was about to begin the chaotic Cultural Revolution. It seems likely that their release now was intended to recall some of the fervor but none of the violence of that period...
...Washington's Birthday editorial, The Crimson calls for "an end to repression and torture in Chile and Spain, and everywhere else, for that matter...