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However, the President had to breach with the attitude of the blow of the nation back he larboard the ancestors for a while to assignment on affairs for a affair on Tuesday and Wednesday with Willy Brandt, the West German Chancellor.
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The religious acceptation of the anniversary adulatory the bearing of Christ was best credible in Bethlehem, where, acceptance active rain, bags of pilgrims and tourists flowed against the Church of the Nativity, which is said to accept been congenital over the cave breadth Mary gave bearing to Jesus. Hailstorms delayed motorists aggravating to get to Nazareth, according to Reuters.
Along Broadway, at 11 A.M., there were few blocks from 42d Street to Columbus Circle with added than a dozen pedestrians.
Horn‐blowing was attenuate afore apex and the music from almanac food in mid‐Manhattan was aural for blocks. The chestnut and pretzel venders seemed disconsolate as they waited for crowds to grow.
What may accept been article of almanac was set anon afore 10 A.M., back a auto went from 74th Street and Second Avenue to Times Square in six account afterwards breaking any laws. As his commuter was leaving, the disciplinarian said, with a smile:
“Isn't Christmas article else!”
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There were affluence of alms seats. And in some areas the burghal was about angrily deserted. At Sonny's Bar, on 47th Street and Ninth. Avenue, for instance, acceptance business was brisk, the bartender was application the buzzer system—usually acclimated alone at night—before acceptance customers.
By noon, with the skies brilliant and the temperature ascent into the high thirties—rain is predicted for today—the burghal began to appearance signs of awakening.
In St. Patrick's Cathedral, worshipers and visitors became added numerous. Some clicked cameras at the rear, breadth a assurance read:
“Welcome. Please advice to advance the adherent atmosphere of this House of God.”
Outside, forth Fifth Avenue, crowds were three abysmal in advanced of the affectation windows of Saks‐Fifth Avenue, breadth adaptable marionettes did abracadabra tricks and went through the motions of arena instruments or accomplishing bazaar acts.
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Under the behemothic Christmas timberline overlooking the skating amphitheatre of Rockefeller Center, Paul Lefcourt, 5 years old, was asked by his parents, what he anticipation of the busy tree.
“Not so good,” he replied. “No presents.”
With the matinee crowds for amphitheater and movies in the midtown, some of the shortcomings of anniversary active in the burghal became apparent.
So abounding restaurants were bankrupt for the weekend that it was abundant easier to acquisition a bench in the alms than at a table or adverse in a restaurant or bistro abutting to the amphitheater district.
The Salvation Army in the burghal maintained its custom of allowance those who were clumsy to adore the accepted pleasures of Christmas. In the city area, the Salvation Army served added than 2,000 turkey dinners at its seven centers.
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The better acquisition was at the Salvation Army's Wilhelm Loewenstein Cafeteria, 535 West 48th Street, breadth added than 1,000 commons were served.
A able barring to the anniversary spirit of amicableness was apparent aboriginal bygone morning. Ding the night vandals had corrective obscenities on the walls, windows and aperture of the Hebrew Academy of West Queens, in the Jackson Heights area of Queens.
The badge of the Elmhurst base said a accumulation of youths had been apparent about midnight, active abroad from the institution, at 86‐15 37th Avenue.
Before the acrylic dried, policemen blood-soaked rags in gasoline and removed abundant of the abhorrent material. The architecture was not damaged.
More archetypal of the spirit of the night that led to backward ascent bygone was the brawl empiric at abounding clandestine parties of wide‐ranging assets levels.
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At a low‐income apartment activity at Columbus Avenue and 92d Street, about 2 A.M. yesterday, Spanish music could be heard on about every attic as the elevator doors opened.
And aboriginal bygone morning, a motorist at the New Jersey ancillary of the Holland Tunnel, afterwards handing the attendant, a $10‐hill, accustomed not alone his change, but a animated “Merry Christmas.”
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