Word: eve
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last all was ready. On Christmas Eve, Weidner and Wagner piled their wives and four children aboard, not forgetting three tons of household belongings. For added protection the plotters shoveled a ton of coal and potatoes into the back of the bus. Then they chugged off north toward Berlin along back roads to escape Communist patrols. Just before they reached the Wall, they planned to swing west in order to enter the East-West Autobahn leading to the U.S. sector of the city...
...Ecumenical Sisters of Mary do missionary work among the poor, perform religious plays for pilgrim audiences, run a retreat house. Organized in 1946 to serve penance for Nazi crimes against world Jewry, the sisters eat breakfast standing up in commemoration of concentration-camp routine, recite special prayers on the eve of the Jewish Sabbath. Another German sisterhood, the Casteller Ring of Schloss Schwanberg, has an intellectual apostolate: teachers all, the sisters of this order wear street clothes instead of habits, but make promises of chastity and recite community prayers in their own chapel...
Christmas Eve Midnight Mass (NBC, midnight to 1:45 a.m.). From St. Patrick's Cathedral...
...Hollywood, institutions do not crumble; they deflate. On New Year's Eve, a loud whistling sigh will develop at Prince Michael Romanoff's fabled restaurant as it sags into extinction. After 23 years in business, the instant prince this week held a command cocktail party in order to tell selected courtiers that he is through...
...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...