Word: al
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MINOR MIRACLE upsets the routine of an elderly parish priest whose hobby is handicapping horses; Lee Tracy is the priest, and Dennis King his bishop, in Al Morgan's comedy. Miami; Millburn...
...century invaders, it was Bilad al-Sudan-Land of the Blacks. To the 4,000,000 blacks who live on its southern flood plains, the name is a mockery. Ruled by harsh Arab masters for most of the past 200 years, the Sudanese Negroes are little more than primitive prisoners in their own land. Political rights have been denied them, education withheld, and they have managed to preserve their dignity only by clinging to their past. The tall, naked Dinkas still worship animal spirits and fear the evil eye. The fierce Nuer herdsmen still subsist on milk, termites...
...nose a lil SUMPthin $$$$$$ ABOut The SUBjeck he writ ABOut. He was a skOOL DRop-oUT." So begins the latest federal literature out of Sargent Shriver's Office of Economic Opportunity-a comic book called Li'l Abner and the Creatures from Drop-Outer Space. Cartoonist Al Capp, 55, plucks Li'l Abner out of Dogpatch, the world's most bizarre poverty pocket, installs him as a "brilliant young technician with a big job, and even bigger feet, who befriends Danny Driftwood, a nice but undesirable young man," and persuades him to ditch his gal Sloppy...
...notable talent in Mele's bullpen, too. "Last year we'd go into the late innings with a lead and we couldn't hold onto it," he says. "Now I can call on a reliever and feel confident." The one he calls on most is Righthander Al Worthington, 36, who has rescued six games for the Twins...
...International Construction Reporter (cost: $50 per year). Merlyn Mickelson decided that the computer companies would need a lot of handmade magnetic memory cores, started turning them out in his basement workshop; that eventually grew into Fabri-Tek Inc., in which his stockholdings are now worth $46 million. Al Maisin sensed the hidden values in old neighborhoods, started remodeling dilapidated houses in his spare time, has become a prosperous builder...