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...keep them growing, Holton has been hammering away at the deleterious effects of the Byrd dynasty, claiming that Virginia's school-dropout rate of 40% is exceeded by only two other states (Mississippi and New Mexico); that the state is 45th in per-capita expenditures for mental health and spends a smaller percentage of per-capita income for higher education than any other Southern state. Holton's most impassioned attacks are reserved for Godwin's anti-integration record and his support for the $1.50 poll tax, which Virginia voters must pay three years in advance of each...
Compared with the 19th century poor so bitingly described in literature-Zola's Gervaise "was quite willing to dispute with a dog for a bone"-the American poor are well off. They would be considered rich by most Red Chinese, whose per capita annual income averages $70. In southern Italy and Sicily, thousands of nullatenenti (havenots) live in caves or open trenches. Poverty is too soft a word to describe the puffed stomachs that are common sights in India, Africa and Brazil's northeast. On the other hand, Scandinavia knows nothing like American slums, and Soviet Russia...
...Theresienwiese fairground last week for the year's biggest community beer bash, the 16-day Oktoberfest. Dating from the come-everybody wedding reception 155 years ago of Bavaria's Crown Prince Ludwig, Oktoberfest today is an excuse for games, gourmandising and, among Bavarians, whose per capita annual beer consumption is 218 quarts, for quaffing the amber Märzenbier.* Seven big beer tents steined out Märzenbier last week, but nowhere was it downed faster than at the largest -the Löwenbräu tent, into which 40,000 people a day crowded to hear...
...TUNISIA. With one of the highest per capita aid rates ($15 a year, roughly equal to the average share of U.S. citizens in the aid tab), this dry and dusty country is rapidly being turned into a gigantic orchard. President Bourguiba has pushed the plan to sink most of $397 million in economic aid since 1958 into fruit and vegetable production...
Ruin & Starvation. Haiti has always been poor. Now it is getting poorer. Per capita income averages $70 a year, per capita food averages 1,780 calories a day, and life expectancy is a bare 32 years−all three the lowest in the hemisphere. Illiteracy is 90%, and population density is 415 persons per square mileboth the highest of any Latin American nation...