Worldwide Christmas Celebrations Amid Cold War Tensions
The article surveys Christmas observances across the globe, noting Pope John XXIII's Christmas Eve blessing for the persecuted and the sick, festive services in Moscow by American clergy, and varied reactions in Communist regions. It highlights U.S. and allied joy over prisoner releases, Havana and Miami celebrations, Queen Elizabeth II’s private gathering, and Christmas traditions from Tokyo to Rome, Formosa to Korea, with soldiers abroad facing ongoing conflicts and truce violations.
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Chiang Kaishek
Formosa
Chiang
Air Force Transport Command
Findu India
Maharaja's Town House
Europe
Thow Saids
Britain
Sandringham
Poland
Trybuna Ludu
Polish Communist Party
Polisot United Natinne
Christmas at Saigon as Vietnam war toll grows
The report notes a U S helicopter pilot and a captain wounded in Viet Nam manned by American and Vietnamese forces. Cardinal Spellman visits troops, delivering messages of home and gratitude as Saigon glitters with festive lights. Christmas dinners will be delivered by supply parachute to remote outposts near the Laos frontier.
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San Pablo
Calif
Saigon
U.S. Air Force
U.S
Viet Nam
Cardinal Spellman
Laos
Relatives Continue Story of Cuban Airline Rescue Efforts
An African Pilot freighter, limited to 18 passengers, will shuttle people from Cuba to Port Everglades and back, with a first payment of $1 million in supplies. Donovan cites 3,500 Cubans applying to join families as authorities approve about 1,000, including children and adults, to rejoin kin. A gray-haired attorney recalls watching the first rescue plane take off, likening it to the slave trade.
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United States
U.S
Scales Granted Presidential Clemency Support Grows
North Carolina Civil Rights Advisory Commission members praised the President's clemency action for Scales noting endorsements from jurors while opponents argued the case remains contested. Barry Golden called the correction a holiday shift and stressed Scales never faced unlawful conduct allegations. Robert L. Gavin, Sanford DA, said he was shocked and has since resigned to run for governor as a Republican.
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Scales
Barry Golden
Charlotte
Seales
North Carolina
Golden
Tam
Gavin
U Thant Protests Tshombe Congo Clash Prompting UN Warning
General U Thant issued a strong protest to Tshombe over Congo clashes. An explanation was demanded with a stern warning that UN forces will not tolerate such outrages again. Tshombe claimed Ethiopian forces fired on Katanga positions from a mine, while Un forces press Thant plan for Congo reunification.
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Tshombe
U.N
Congo
5Aoran
Pope to devote Christmas morning to children at hospital
The Vatican said the Pope will visit the Bam bino Gesu Christ Child Hospital near the Vatican walls on Christmas morning his first trip outside the Vatican since his illness four weeks ago. He will then appear at his studio window over St Peter's Square to give the Angelus blessing.
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Christ Child
Vatican Walls
St. Peter's Square
St. Peter's
Record Death Toll From Holiday Driving Disasters
The piece notes a historic spike in traffic fatalities during Christmas 1955 with 706 deaths over four days, compares to prewar lows, and cites AP survey data predicting high tolls in nonholiday weekends. It cites National Safety Council estimates of future deaths and records from the first ten months of the year.
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National Secty Council
Nowholiday
Associated Press
Bres
Liberation Flights Bring 173 Prisoners to Florida for Christmas
The final plane load of released prisoners arrives at Homestead Air Force Base near Miami to join families and celebrations. Cuban prisoners from Principe and Isla de Pinos camps are welcomed by Red Cross personnel as emotional reunions unfold amid the holiday rush.
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Nina
Ravana
Sible
Jose Miro Cardona
Red Cross
Manuel Varona
Antonio Hernai
Raul Leasliffe
Er¢month
Raul Jr
Pesto Freyre
Homestead Air Force Base
Miami
Weather map shows mixed precipitation across Appalachians and plains
Precipitation spreads from central and southern Rockies eastward to the Mississippi and Gulf states. Freezing line dips into Tennessee and Arkansas with sleet and freezing rain on highways. Snow light north of the line, heavy rains to the Gulf coast. Temperatures from zero in Montana to the 70s in Florida. Christmas snow up to four inches in southern Rockies to Arkansas Tennessee Kentucky.
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Appalachians
Rockies
Mississippi
Gulf States
Tennessee
Georgia
Tennnessee
Arkansas
Texas Panhandle
Lme
Gulf Coast
Montana Mountains
Florida
Kentucky
mid-Mississippi
Great Lakes
Carolina
mid-Atlantic
Connecticut
New York
Bethlehem Christmas under war shadows across holy land
In Bethlehem and nearby shepherds fields, worshippers from many lands pray for peace as Jordanian and Israeli tensions persist. A Jordanian police band plays as sandbagged gun emplacements overlook Holy Land lines. Arab Christians cross into Jerusalem for Christmas but return by nightfall via a wire corridor, 2686 such visitors this year.
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Georgia
Disie
Judean Hills
Christ
Holy Land
Brown Hills
Jordan
Israel
Jerusalem
Bethlehem
Seidfelbaum
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