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...relentless as the cherry blossoms, 2,528 Daughters of the American Revolution burst upon the Potomac for their 70th annual séance. With nary a dissent, the Continental Congress passed resolutions condemning federal grants-in-aid, "demoralization in the entertainment world," and the issuance of postage stamps commemorating foreigners. In other actions, the Founding Mothers endorsed the Monroe Doctrine, engaged in a minor skirmish when a lone maverick opposed censure of the Peace Corps. Summarily shutting off the debate ("You've had your two minutes"), D.A.R. President General, Mrs. Ashmead White, gaveled through a resolution to keep...
Taking advantage of a Radio Moscow broadcast in honor of his 70th birthday, Russian Author Ilya Ehrenburg aimed an oblique swipe at his government's persistent but unadmitted discrimination against Jews. Said Ehrenburg: "I am proud of the fact that I am an ordinary Russian writer. But my passport [for travel inside Russia] states that I am not a Russian but a Jew. As long as even one anti-Semite exists in the world, I shall proudly reply to any question as to my nationality...
Three weeks short of his 70th birthday, President de Gaulle went into four-day seclusion at his country retreat in the Champagne region of northeastern France. He tramped in his damp wooded fields ("I have walked them 15,000 times"), sat in the tower study he has added to the old stone farmhouse, working on his first radio-TV speech in five months...
...morning last week a group of White House correspondents and photographers trooped into President Eisenhower's office to wish him well on the occasion of his 70th birthday. "Around next January 18 or 19," a smiling Ike told them, "we'll all have to get together for a farewell party." One of the reporters who knew that he would not be around for that party asked to spend a few minutes with the President for an early farewell. The reporter: Charles Mohr, TIME'S White House correspondent since December 1957, who will soon leave for India...
...decree of the District of Columbia, the capital officially celebrated Dwight Eisenhower's 70th birthday, marking him as the first President ever to reach that age in office. After a morning serenade by an Army band, Old Soldier Eisenhower at noon stepped out on the White House lawn, crowded with some 6,000 well-wishers who chorused Happy Birthday, as Mamie watched from a balcony. Some of his admirers presented him with a golf ball and tees, done up in a box inscribed to the "World's Greatest Golfer...