Word: newborn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
Pass the Handout. Flying home from his eight-week trip to the Soviet bloc. Wise Man Che Guevara brought his present for the newborn Cuba: agreements that make Cuba's shattered economy dependent on Russian handouts. The Reds promised to import such Cuban goods as hides and sugar, unneeded in Russia; they promised to send to Cuba a $250 million aid program, including an oil refinery, a steel mill, power plants. Added the joint communique: in case the U.S. "carries out its threat of not buying more sugar from Cuba," Russia commits itself to purchase 2,700,000 tons...
Twice almost every day, Kennedy slipped over to the Georgetown University Hospital to see his wife and newborn son. John Jr., he told the press, would be baptized soon. Inevitably, a reporter asked Kennedy if he wanted his boy to grow up to be President. Replied the new papa, commonsensibly: "I haven't thought about it. I just want for him to be all right." After visiting the baby with his father, Millionaire Joe Kennedy, the Pres ident-elect revealed that "we finally decided who the baby looks like. He looks like Dad." Who decided that? Replied Jack...
...dramatize his "New Frontier" theme, Campaigner John Kennedy often drew on a favorite anecdote about Benjamin Franklin. As his fellow delegates to the Constitutional Convention rose one by one to sign the newborn document, Franklin observed that for many days he had been unable to decide whether the rosy sun on the painting behind the president's chair was rising or setting. "But now at length," said Franklin, "I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting...
...About one in five believes that a newborn child's disfiguration may be caused by the mother's fright during pregnancy...