Word: yearly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...season to see Perry, fa la la la la. For the 16th year, Perry Como returns to television on Dec. 14 as host of his annual Christmas show. This year the singer, 67, celebrates "Christmas in New Mexico," aided by Greer Garson, a Como friend since Hollywood days. Garson, who now works a cattle ranch called Forked Lightning near Santa Fe with Husband Buddy Fogelson, welcomes Easterner Como to her adopted Southwest and recites the poem "Christmas Eve in Santa...
...Stone walls do not a prison make," said the poet, "nor iron bars a cage." Tell that to petite Brunette Maria-Christina ("Putzi") von Opel, 28, playgirl heiress to a vast German auto fortune. Last week von Opel found herself behind walls and bars facing a ten-year prison term after a French court in Draguignan found her guilty of financing a 1977 scheme to import Middle East hashish into West Germany, and Italy via Saint-Tropez. Why should an heiress worth $70 million involve herself in a drug ring? Neither von Opel nor any of her seven co-defendants...
...year's most perverse children's book is Raymond Briggs' Fungus the Bogeyman (Random House; $4.95). Fungus is free to do what kids cannot: live underground, put grease in his hair, make things go bump in the night and in general be a grain of sand in the public eye. His adventures cover oversized pages full of puns ("Hullo, my dreary," "my direling") and bile green anatomy charts that provide a perfect send-up for the child who has ODed on gnomes and faeries...
...most affecting Orthodox display is in Oster, a 1,000-year-old town some 70 miles from Kiev. This is the diocese where Prince Vladimir proclaimed Christianity the state religion in A.D. 989. The bells of the Byzantine Church of the Resurrection are ringing. There is a red carpet. People offer flowers. Father Vladimir Shtepa, apologizing for his parish's lack of important icons, says: "The people are our treasure." The 5,000 parishioners are mostly farmers and seem old, though again some 30% are young. Shtepa professes a religious relativism: "The main principle of Christianity and Marxism...
...archbishops on one wall stare at portraits of Politburo members facing them from the wall opposite. Copies of Pravda and Izvestiya are posted on bulletin boards, but the library has 25,000 theological works. Rector Alexander Khravchenko says there are 90 to 120 applications for 60 entering places each year, but the graduating class is the same size...