Word: santas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Much can be said of Fidel Castro's wild schemes, but no one can accuse him of lacking imagination. In the high name of the revolution last week Castro nationalized 1) Cuba's bat guano caves, 2) every chicken egg in Havana province and 3) Santa Claus, who has gradually become the symbol of Christmas through much of Latin America...
...Prize for his calm editorial voice. Last week, surveying Little Rock's now-peaceful school scene, Harry Ashmore, 43, announced that he is leaving to take on a new job as consultant to the Fund for the Republic's Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, Calif...
...JOHN NASTARI First Baptist Church Santa Clara, Calif...
Died. Edmund Gwenn, 83, British-born actor who for the last couple of decades invariably played the roles of kindly, puckish old men, won the 1947 Academy Award for best supporting actor as a benign Santa Claus in Miracle on 34th Street, was a close friend of George Bernard Shaw, who cast him in many of his plays in the early 1900s; in Woodland Hills, Calif...
...always it is more baffling to cope with the indifference, for it assumes a prior judgment; it rests on an implied assumption that Catholicism is by nature phony; that Catholicism is patronizing, and assumes the air of a father who won't tell the child there is no Santa Claus. Catholics are certainly not despised, but in general they are respected only despite their Catholicism...