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...Sunday Telegraph last week, the Tate was embarrassed. Moore wants to be certain that his works can be publicly displayed, but the gallery still needs to raise $2,100,000 for a new wing. Nonetheless, Moore plans to announce an itemized gift list next year on his 70th birthday. "If the gallery puts up a special wing with a complete unity of its own, I shall be pleased," he said, adding: "But I am not laying down any conditions...
Kremlinologists dutifully measured the size of Brezhnev's mug with that of Khrushchev when he won the same honor in 1964 on his 70th birthday; it was only half as big. In the detailed press accounts of Brezhnev's career, some experts saw an effort to show fraternal Communist parties that Brezhnev has the stature to lead them against China. Others saw the boost for Brezhnev as ratification of his victory in a guns v. butter dispute; Kosygin is said to have opposed the 8% increase in military outlays approved two weeks...
...country on April 9, 1940. Next morning the distressed Danes saw their King Christian on horseback, riding as he always did through the streets of Copenhagen, disdainfully ignoring the German soldiers. The surge of morale produced by this simple act was incalculable. Later that year, when Christian celebrated his 70th birthday, a small badge bearing his initials on the background of the Danish flag was struck-and worn by almost every Dane as long as the war lasted...
...Viet Nam. Mrs. Buck and Harris swung across the U.S. last year on a fund-raising tour that actually turned into one long interview-with the aide asking the questions and the author chattering away about China, love, art, the foundation, and inexhaustibly about herself. The result is her 70th book and her second memoir, which echoes the earnest and vaguely vatic tone of her first, A Bridge in Passing, published...
...Viet Nam. Even before the new session began, Republicans and Democrats alike were having second thoughts about where the money would come from to finance both war and welfare. "We've got a war on our hands," said Senate G.O.P. Leader Everett Dirksen of Illinois, who celebrated his 70th birthday last week, "and I think some of these domestic programs can be scaled down." Warned Arkansas Democrat John McClellan, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee: "We are going to have to retrench and hold down new programs until the budget is under better control...