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...West Berlin, the holiday tables were piled with traditional dishes-boiled carp for Christmas Eve, roast goose for Christmas Day. the cheery bunte Teller, plates piled high with fruit and marzipan, nuts and pastry. But West Berlin's authorities have banned the traditional New Year's Eve fireworks for fear some young people would lob the German equivalent of cherry bombs across the Wall into East Berlin and precipitate trouble. The Berlin mood last week was accurately reflected by a sardonic "Carol for Our Time" written by members of the press corps...
Wouldn't you just love to have President Kennedy send American troops into Laos, and wouldn't you cry and carp when months later those troops were bogged down in the jungle while we struggled desperately to supply them by air and argued whether or not to use the bomb...
...sibling rivalry of the Christian family. Protestants and Catholics often carp at each other more like brothers and sisters than brethren in Christ. This kind of religious infighting in which slights outweigh insights has no appeal to Jesuit Theologian Gustave Weigel, professor of ecclesiology* at Maryland's Woodstock College. In the current issue of The Catholic World, Father Weigel provides an equably tempered, coolly reasoned analysis of what he calls "The Protestant Stance Today." Conventional Protestants who have given the matter little thought may be somewhat surprised at Father Weigel's spadework in the intellectual subsoil...
Seeing an opportunity for himself in Castro's sprawling program of land reform, Morgan talked the Agriculture Ministry into giving him charge of a fish hatchery. He raised carp, sunfish and black bass, read up on frogs, soon was ready to expand. Taking over 430 acres of a confiscated ranch along Lake Ariguanabo, Morgan spent $40,000 of the ministry's money digging ditches to hold his frogs, another $30,000 stocking the farm with frogs caught by peasants in the streams and marshes of western Cuba...
Stumping & Pumping. Working the way he thinks a Senator should, conscientious Cliff Case has spent far more time answering roll calls in Washington than mending fences in New Jersey. Local GOPoliticos carp that he has lost touch with them, ignored them on federal patronage. Because he remained in Washington for the civil rights debate, Case has barely been able to campaign for the primary. One night last week, for example, Case flew into New York's La Guardia Airport at 8:50, sped off to a single political rally, hustled right back to catch an 11:30 plane...