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Seasonal & Holidays

How Santa Showed up on NORAD's Radar 60 Years Ago

Where's Santa?

Sixty years ago this month an Air Force officer unwittingly started a Christmas tradition that continues to this day – Norad’s annual tracking of St. Nick on his worldwide rounds, Michael Beschloss reports on nytimes.com.

For more, including how even President Kennedy reassured a Michigan girl during the Cold War that all was well at the North Pole, according to Beschloss: http://kenallensforum.blogspot.com/

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