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...nation to break relations with Cuba.- Of all Latin America's Presidents, Arosemena has been probably the most sympathetic to Castro, and when the Ecuadorian took power last November, Fidel chortled that "it must have hit Washington like a 65-megaton bomb." But now Castro fired his own damp squib: "Arosemena was on some occasions completely intoxicated from Monday to Sunday. The reactionaries took photographs of this señor in the midst of feast and drunken carousals. Any day, in one of these carousals the military will grab him and take him to an embassy [where] he will...
...past Christmases. Berlin was the meeting place for families divided by East and West. From the Communist East Zone came die Alten, the old ones-elderly people who clung to pensions, apartments, old circles of friends, rather than escape to the West. The East people would file up the damp stairs of Bahnhof Friedrichstrasse in East Berlin, take the elevated, and ten minutes later emerge into the neon-lit bustle of West Berlin. There they were met by relatives, led to well-heated apartments, treated to chocolate, cigars-and pineapple, which is scarce in the East Zone...
...achieve rapid shifts in stage tempo and mood following a death or a birth with far more convincing effect than Wilder was able to achieve in plain prose. Critics hailed Christmas Dinner as first-rate opera, and the audience was clearly moved. "It certainly fits our family," muttered one damp-eyed woman as she left the hall...
...Michigan, Christmas was hay rides, throaty caroling and hot chocolate. In New England, it was plum pudding and frosty trees. In the German immigrant towns of Wisconsin, the old men drank cognac and Löwenbräu and listened damp-eyed to old recordings of long-gone Rhineland carillons. In Georgia, the holiday mornings began with bacon, eggs, red-eye gravy, biscuits, grits, deer sausage, fried catfish, cornbread, buttermilk, waffles, French toast, hotcakes and heaps of fruit. In the afternoon the womenfolk gathered in the big kitchen to prepare scalloped oysters and smoked turkey, fried chicken and black-eyed...
...damp, bone-chilling mornings, factory workers line up in alleyways to buy bits of pancake or oily fritters at outdoor stoves. Often the street hawker runs out of food before half the line is fed. Those who can afford it visit the "free" markets, where peasants sell eggs at 30? each, peanuts at $2 per Ib. and chickens...