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...heavily decorated with candy canes, gingerbread cookies, and toys mostly made by the blind and selected by Jacqueline Kennedy; it stands 16 ft. high in the main lobby near the Blue Room, which was itself closed because it is being redone partially in white. There is a crèche with exquisite. 18th century Neapolitan figures in the East Room. Some 1,200 members of the White House staff who last week attended the annual staff Christmas party received prints of a watercolor by Pennsylvania Artist Edward Lehman showing the Red Room as it has recently been redecorated in cerise...
Fidel Castro is uncharacteristically silent these days. So is little brother Raul. But it is hard to keep them all quiet in Cuba's talky regime. To a correspondent from the London Daily Worker, Minister of Industries Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, who was Castro's one-man braintrust back in the hills, last week gave an interview defiantly proclaiming Cuba's firm intention to go right on trying to export its revolution throughout Latin America. What is more, said Che, "if the rockets had remained, we would have used them all and directed them against the very heart...
Guevara's more bellicose remarks were blue-penciled out by the Worker's London editors-Moscow has decreed a softer line these days. Che, among other things, told the Worker correspondent: "We know that some people in Europe are saying that a great victory has been won. We ask whether in exchange for some slight gain we have only prolonged the agony. So far, all that has happened is that a confrontation has been avoided." Taking the Chinese "war is inevitable'' position. Che went on: "The Cuban revolution has shown that in conditions of imperialist domination...
...Francis of Assisi made the first crèche-or so his loyal biographer, St. Bonaventura, says-and it was a double success. The tableau lent a drama to the saint's sermon on Christmas Eve in 1223, and the hay later "proved a marvellous remedy for sick beasts and a prophylactic against divers other plagues.'' Since then, thousands and thousands of creches have been made, some commissioned by great lords, some modeled after master paintings, some encrusted with jewels, and some even designed to be wound up and set moving. But the most appealing creches...
...third Earl Russell, whose grandfather was a Victorian Prime Minister, often acts as if he had inherited the job along with the family title. Since the Cuban crisis erupted last month, Bertrand Russell (family motto: Che Sara Sara) has been cabling, writing and calling world statesmen with such vim and volubility that the government in Whitehall has had trouble getting a word in edgewise...