For the second time in three Christmases, Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau received the same present from his wife Margaret; a son. On Christmas Day 1971 Justin Pierre was born. This Christmas Day Alexandre Emmanuel arrived. Two days after taking Justin to the hospital in Ottawa to see his brother, Trudeau announced the name of his newborn son. He said he had selected Emmanuel (Hebrew for God with us), while his wife had chosen Alexandre, "after the saint, the Czar or the Pope--take the one you want," joked Trudeau, adding that the baby would be known simply as Sacha.

Retiring New York City Mayor John V. Lindsay, 52, has done well by Broadway in charity-benefit walk-on roles. Could Broadway have done without him? No, was the unanimous opinion of the 400 show-biz folk who crowded into a Manhattan restaurant last week to thank Lindsay for his support of their profession during his eight-year administration. Among the grateful: Monique Van Vooren, Joan Fontaine, Christopher Plummer, Stephen Sondheim, Paul Lynde, Rita Moreno and Composer Richard Rodgers. Paying waggish tribute to Lindsay's consistency, Peter Boyle said: "He's been a very good mayor for our business. When he came in, I was an unemployed actor. Now I'm still an unemployed actor."

Six weeks after his right leg was amputated above the knee to prevent the spread of a rare form of can cer, Teddy Kennedy Jr., 12, appears to be making an excellent recovery. Having adjusted to his new leg well enough to walk a few steps without crutches, Teddy confidently joined a pre-Christmas family sledding party in Virginia. Then he arrived at Palm Beach for a vacation with his family at the home of his grandmother, Mrs. Rose Kennedy. He rejected a waiting wheelchair at the airport and made his own way to the car. The next day, Teddy, wearing shorts, was seen tooling along a local bike path on an adult tricycle, crutches tucked in the rear basket. Said Grandmother Rose proudly: "The little fellow is getting along just fine."

"I'm a charge-hell-with-a-bucket-of-water kind of person," was the way Luci Johnson Nugent once described herself. Nowadays, the late President Johnson's younger daughter usually confines such activities to her Austin, Texas home, where she lives with Husband Pat Nugent, their children Patrick Lyndon, 6, and Nicole Marie, 3. But visiting the Texas location of Robert Redford's new movie The Great Waldo Pepper, an aerial barnstorming epic set in the '20s, Luci did some public hell-raising. She hopped into the cockpit of a 1918 plane, donned goggles and let Stunt Pilot Frank Tallman take her out for just a ride--apparently not even a spin, a roll, a loop-trie-loop, a couple of bunts.

The Connecticut-based organization Promoting Enduring Peace, Inc., a nationwide affiliation of 1,000 clergymen and laymen, decided in September to give their 1974 Gandhi Peace Award to Viet Nam War Protester Father Daniel Berrigan, 52. (Previous winners: the Rev. William Sloan Coffin Jr., Eleanor Roosevelt, Dr. Benjamin Spock and Rabbi Maurice Eisendrath.) But after the controversial Jesuit sounded off on the Middle East war recently, attacking both Israeli and Arab leadership (TIME, Dec. 31), some of P.E.P.'s 45 board members objected. The organization's head, the Rev. Roy Pfaff, polled the full board to find out whether Berrigan's award should stand. With only 20 replies received so far, the results are inconclusive. Not, however, as far as Berrigan is concerned. Decrying what he called "a degrading consensus game," Berrigan refused the prize. His refusal, he said, "brings me somewhat nearer to the spirit of Gandhi; it is not a time for reward, but a time for labor."

He was only a 17-year-old errand boy to John D. Rockefeller when he became convinced of Russia's industrial potential. So as Canadian-born, Cleveland-based Cyrus Eaton made and remade several industrial fortunes in steel, railroads and rubber over the years, he also worked for detente between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.: traveling behind the Iron Curtain, playing host to Russian leaders when they visited the U.S., proposing trade deals and in 1957 assembling at his original home in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, one of the first international scientific conferences to discuss the dangers of nuclear disaster. Last week, when Eaton turned 90, he received congratulatory telegrams from President Podgorny, Premier Kosygin and Party Leader Brezhnev, as well as Chicago's Mayor Daley, Senator William Fulbright and Sir Julian Huxley. Turning up at a reception given by the mayor of Cleveland, Eaton was optimistic about the energy crisis. "We will harness the sun and the power of the tides," he predicted. "We'll not let the world stand still because of a lack of energy."

Modern Dance Doyenne Martha Graham, 79, once said that if she ever had to give up flirting, she would "give up altogether." Now it seems that her championship of sometime Photographer Ron Protas, 31, as executive director of the Martha Graham Dance Company has caused several old friends to give her up. Sounding like a rejected suitor, Graham Company Veteran Bertram Ross explained his recent resignation: "Life has always been difficult with Martha. Now, Protas is encouraging her to fantasize she's a young girl and two men are fighting over her favors." Exiting too were another long-time Graham dancer, Mary Hinkson and five "unsympathetic" members of the board who were persuaded by Martha to resign last year. Apparently unfazed, Protas is now planning Martha's first European tour in seven years. Says Attorney Arnold Weissberger, the board's secretary: "The company was in the doldrums before Protas took over. Martha herself is in wonderful form again. Why, she even looks like a young girl!"

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