Word: john
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through the holiday crush on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue last week walked a teenage girl with a stenciled poster: "How many shopping days until peace?" A few blocks away a giant billboard loomed over Times Square, bearing a Christmas message from Beatle John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono. The billboard-one of eleven put up on Los Angeles' Sunset Boulevard, London's Shaftesbury Avenue and in several European and Canadian cities-proclaimed: "The war is over ... if you want it. Happy Christmas, John and Yoko...
...JOHN and Abigail Adams moved into the drafty, unfinished White House just before Christmas, 1800, and threw the first party there on New Year's Day. Ever since, the holidays have been a lively season at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Few presidential couples, however, have gone at the Christmastime merrymaking with quite the gusto of Richard and Pat Nixon. For the holidays they have peopled the place with choirs, Bob Hope, the Apollo 12 astronauts and more than 6,000 other Americans, renowned and unknown. To fuel those guests, the kitchens turned out 25,000 cookies, 1,130 gallons...
...play his Christmas specialty-Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, the first Christmas song Daughters Tricia and Julie learned to sing. For the first time, however, the entire family will not be together on Christmas. Julie and David Eisenhower are flying-student fare-to Brussels, where David's father, John, serves as U.S. Ambassador to Belgium...
...John Kennedy assassinated...
THOUGH Viet Nam has been his specialty since 1961, Sir Robert Thompson was never influential with either John Kennedy or Lyndon Johnson. It was Richard Nixon who embraced his views wholeheartedly-most likely because they coincide with...