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'A I it i -v Also includes four pounds of white truffles, four dozen double-yoked eggs and a documented essay on the omelet pan. i'Around the World in 80 Days" uy secret fantasy? Do it after New Year with a balloon trip to wherever your heart desires. May we suggest some sensational soaring above the Grand Canyon for Includes an FAA licensed balloon pilot, limousine to the balloon and champagne. You will, of course, want to move now that you're so rich. How about a revolving, round house? It's a steal at $835,000.

The entire house can rotate to change the view at will or to follow or elude the sun. If you want to check the realtor, take a look at the houses of some of his ex-clients such as Bing Crosby, Bette Davis," various Rockefellers, Jackie Gleason, Guy Lombardo, Dean Martin, Jimmy Stewart, the late Billy Rose, Edmund de Rothschild, the late Duke of Windsor, Mary Martin, Charles Schultz and last but not least the Bank of New York. For where to buy these Christmas "dream gifts," write Family Weekly. GOOD, INEXPENSIVE. LAST-MINUTE GIFTS FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY But, now, back to earth.

Here are just a few last minute gift suggestions and all are under $10. For the kids: Raggedy Anne and Raggedy Andy doll outfits paint sets jacks jigsaw puzzles Yo-Yos kids' card games pickup sticks chess and checker sets kaleidoscopes crayons doctor and nurse sets. For teenagers: T-shirts posters patches for jeans with lock and key photo albums records perfumes and colognes compacts hair ribbons panty hose bandanas hobby kits camera film shoe-shine kits desk accessories'. For adults: Scarves golf tees and balls manicure kits calculators pocket dictionary address book coffee mugs dish towels herbs and spices tennis balls compass kitchen equipment. ON THIS WEEK'S COVER, A SPECTACULAR CHRISTMAS TREE .4 CAj'W's Castle at $10,000 THE MOST EXPENSIVE CHRISTMAS PRESENTS LN THE WORLD Pretend you're a millionaire and can buy anything you want from stores around the country.

What would you get? Well, for the kids, why not a 510,000 Dream Castle just waiting to be picked up. It's handmade in Bavaria and. the only one of its kind in the U.S.A. In front of the entrance is a lawn setting with a horse-drawn carriage waiting at its edge. Inside, there's a fully lighted hall of mirrors in which miniature dancing figures in 17th-century costumes cavort to the strains of "A Little Music." If fun for the whole family is more what you had in mind, how about really surprising them on Christmas day with Your Own Amusement Park at just $2,000,000 an acre? You provide the land, and the fantasy spot is yours.

Price tag includes a former Disney designer, parking, electricity and water, iior those more interested in heritage than in high living, you now have the perfect gift an autographed letter from President Thomas Jefferson to Col. John Taylor, dated March 14, 1821. A steal for only $8,500. It's said that one needs even heat distribution to make a good omelet. So be the hit of your neighborhood with this stocking present solid-gold omelet pan for $30,000.

We only hope it lives up to its promise to create the ultimate omelet each and every time. It features a rosewood handle and a French oak box. leading families of the aristocracy. The beautiful creatures of the Howard creche may once have; belonged to a crib set up by famous Neapolitan family. But this year, they are in the Sculpture Garden of the Metropolitan.

Museum spokeswoman Maggie Burton says, "It's very beautiful, but it's more than that; it's an ideal stage setting for the most powerful drama ever and in a perfect kind of theater." BIRTHDAYS (Sunday-Tuesday: Sagittarius; Wednesday-Saturday: Capricorn): Sunday Cicely Tyson 46. Monday Irene Dunne 72; Max Lerner 74; George Roy Hill 53; Bob Hayes 34. Tuesday David Susskind 56; Jane Fonda 39; Barry Gordon 28; Frank Zappa 36; Chris Evert 22; John Mc-Cormick 85. Wednesday Andre Kos-telanetz 75; Lady Bird Johnson 64. Thursday Jose Greco 58; Elizabeth Hartman 35; James Roosevelt 69; James Gregory 65.

Friday Ava Gardner 54; Robert Joffrey 46. Saturday Cab Calloway 69; Tony Martin 63. When Loreita Hines Howard presented her precious collection of Neapolitan Christmas creche figures to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, little did she realize that its yearly installation at the foot of the Museum's giant tree would become a cherished event for people around the world. That angel on our cover is only one of 50 equally elegant and heavenly crea-tures-rclad in: swirling pastel draperies' their hair knotted by a mystical wind who, seemingly by magic, hover suspended in adoration over the birth of the Christ child. There are also shepherds carved to look like the real peasants they were modeled on, dozens of dimpled cherubs, hosts of country people, horses, sheep, oxen, goats even an elephant.

The three Magi are there splendidly attired in long cloaks of silk embroidered with silver, gold and sequins. The figures are made of terra cotta and wood and are 12 to 15 inches high. Because in the 18th century the queen of Naples and her ladies were often given the task of clothing the human figures, each is outfitted in exquisite detail. Even the buttons on cloaks and boots are tiny semi-precious stones. The Howard creche combines two European traditions: the Northern European practice of.

decorating the Christmas tree, and the custom of Southern Europe, which calls for a re-enactment of the Nativity scene. Christmas crib building first made its appearance in Italy sometime around 1670. It was the favorite pastime of the III LMJ BIRTHDAY PEOPLE: David Susskind and Jane Fonda A Castle for Grownups at S835.000 14 FAMILY WEEKLY, December 19.1976.