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Havana's government-operated television station CMQ presented an unusual Nativity scene for Cubans to ponder last week. Above the building's entrance was a painting of a peasant couple watching the newborn babe in the manger. Overhead, a light bulb screwed into his forehead, beamed the face of José Marti, Cuba's national hero. And out of the East strode the three Wise Men-Fidel Castro, Economic Czar Ernesto ("Che") Guevara and Army Chief Juan Almeida. The symbolism, in a way, was appropriate. On Christmas week,* the East was where Cuba found itself tied...
What grist for the Protestant scandalmongers' mill! Everything that American Catholicism has stood for-separation of church and state, freedom of religion, a non-temporal clergy-is endangered by the stupid, archaic and "dog-in-the-manger" mouthings of these modern-day Savonarolas. This sort of thing is precisely what makes Protestants turn green at the gills and red in the face...
Many students at the College are known as "hey manger," and little else. These athletic managers are usually quiet, unnoticed guys in a Crimson jacket who spend a great deal of time responding to commands. They are usually stereotyped as the flunkey water boys who delight in pending countless hours in the locker room and on the field becoming masters at various menial tasks...
Meyer's staunchest opponents, however, have to double about his honesty; the doubt in the minds of Vermont voter stems from the conflicting images of a sincere dissenter and of dangerous radical. The two strains are present even in the comments of Stafford's campaign manger, Earie Bishop, a veteran who has served two terms in the service, and is now a member of the National Guard and wears his uniform when he spends Sundays at home. "Meyer is dangerously naive," Bishop observed, "but I have no reason to doubt his sincerity--and certainly he makes sense in what...
Nixon: No, madam, it is not. Perhaps you were thinking of Abraham Lincoln. I was born in a manger...