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...state, Alabama came to know the darkest sort of poverty and to experience the bitterness and hatred that such poverty can inspire. Even today, Alabama rates 47th among the states in per capita income ($1,538), leading only Arkansas, South Carolina and Mississippi. And, at a time when George Wallace is inveighing against the Federal Government in the name of states' rights, the extent to which Alabama depends on economic help from the Government is an immense irony...
...Peter's Basilica. Cars and taxis began to clog the narrow streets near the Vatican. Out of them stepped bishops, priests, brothers, nuns, seminarians. About half the pilgrims were Italian, many of them attired as for a picnic. But there were plenty of men dressed in their darkest business suits, and women in discreet blacks, lacy mantillas tossed over elaborate coiffures...
...outrageous seem natural-and the natural outrageous. In The Girls of Slender Means she not only gets away with trial by hip-size in the bathroom but thriftily makes it a moment of religious crisis. After witnessing the scene, a male character joins the Catholic Church and heads for darkest Haiti, where he is eventually martyred by angry natives...
Call Me Bwana. Bob Hope, Anita Ekberg and Edie Adams on a spy chase through darkest Congo. Hope springs eternal, but Ekberg is a couple of jumps ahead...
...Fund, which, to make an extra point, bounced part of the program off Telstar II and showed that telelectures could be transmitted to darkest Africa as well as the South...