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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Less generously, the rebels shot two Cuban "counterrevolutionaries" one dawn last week in the first executions since June by the firing squads that have put 557 Cubans to death this year...
...navigational charts in a brown envelope, a clutch of unpaid bills in another. He handed what he believed to be the bills to a well-wishing U.S. consular official, then flew off crosswind, with a one-ton overload of fuel, into the blue yonder, westbound for Trinidad as his first landfall. Casually opening his remaining envelope, he made a discomfiting discovery: he had mistakenly left his charts behind, had a choice of burning up his excess fuel and returning to Africa or of navigating with his unpaid bills. Little daunted, Conrad headed on westward, a 3,700-mile...
...their abilities have a new name: underachievers. With the title is awarded a mandatory one-year leave of absence from the college. Last week, in his annual report, Amherst President Charles W. Cole said that the college's program to unload loafers had fared well during its first experimental year and will be continued...
Venice's beatniks were delighted. Cried Lawrence (The Holy Barbarians) Lipton: "This is another witch hunt, another effort of the squares to put down the beats. Why, Whitman was the first beatnik-beard, sandals, the whole bit." Said Teacher Russell with tired irony: "They have probably started a greater Whitman revival than I ever could...
...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...