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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Second Bethlehem. After the elements of the Nativity scene were established, the first recorded real crèche was made in 1223 by St. Francis of Assisi. Christmas had always been for him the "Feast of Feasts" when "God condescended to be fed by human love." In the church at the town of Greccio, three years before he died, St. Francis preached before a manger filled with hay, beside which stood an ox and an ass. Wrote an early biographer, Thomas of Celano: "Greccio was transformed almost into a second Bethlehem, and that wonderful night seemed like the fullest...
...hothouse liberal who talks the game but doesn't play it ... Let us choose a liberal who meets the requirements of the people who know the difference between a working liberal and a talking liberal . . . I for one have no time for the Johnny-come-lately, well-fed liberals who would like to have a disproportionate voice in the party. I think you know who they are." He made it clear, in a passing swipe, that he was sore at the once-devoted New York Post, which had recently taken some potshots at him. But beyond that, nobody...
...Sullivan ever since Gibson started working on the new play while Seesaw was still on the road. In the meantime, Anne became engaged, this time to Mario Ferrari-Ferreira, distantly related to the Italian auto family. But by the time Seesaw began its tryout in Washington, Annie was again fed up with the idea of marriage. "The play had become vitally important to me," she says matter-of-factly. "There was no time or energy for anything else." There was also another complication: her Catholicism. Says she: "The church is still a big part...
...cattle, farming and packing business in California. He is a taciturn, hard-bitten cowpoke, but he has the U.S. livestock industry in an uproar. Cattle and sheep associations throughout the West accuse him of everything from anti-Americanism to stealing away the livelihood of the U.S. rancher. Jim Delfino, fed up with the marginal profits of the domestic livestock industry, has gambled $500,000 that he can make more money by importing cattle and sheep 7,900 miles across the Pacific Ocean from Australia and New Zealand to U.S. markets...
...regard to the use of weed killer on cranberries, Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Flemming indicated that it caused cancer in rats. It occurred to me that the cranberry growers would have been happier if Mr. Flemming had simply made clear that cranberries should not be fed to rats...