Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some officials tried to relieve the pressure with gallows humor. Members of the Agriculture Department sent out invitations for a 51st birthday celebration, saying that "the party will be either for Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland, or it will be for Bob Bergland." It turned out to be the former: Bergland kept his job. (So did another Cabinet member who had been widely rumored to be due for replacement, Secretary of Commerce Juanita Kreps.) On Capitol Hill, when Blumenthal returned from a break during a hearing before the House Budget Committee, a reporter cracked: "At least you came back." Replied...
...hired two models in bikinis to stroll into the Chicago printing plant where John worked to sing him a happy birthday. Belly dancers appeared at Sam's auto business to perform. A plane hired by Sam streamed greetings past John's house. A high school band hired by John played For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. An elephant was delivered to John's home...
...shipped a 4,000-lb. "Pet Rock" to John. John returned with ten tons of happy birthday pebbles and a message: "The 'Pet Rock' was pregnant. Now you take care of the kids." Two weeks ago, 4,000 Ibs. of manure were dumped on John's lawn, courtesy of Sam. Said the accompanying sign: THE BABY ROCKS YOU SENT WERE NOT HOUSEBROKEN...
...33rd birthday is not until Feb. 7, but John is already thinking hard. Says Sam: "The neighbors think we're both kind of weird...
ROCK AND ROLL is experiencing the mid-life crisis predicted for it long ago, and old rockers are dropping like stock in the McDonnell-Douglas Corporation. Yesterday was Mick Jagger's 36th birthday. As he ponders how to bow gracefully out of the premier position he's held for over a decade, other performers who have had less of a chance to stockpile tax-free bonds and Krugerrands are struggling to find ways to establish their financial security...