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...adult Kentuckians has less than five grades of education. The state ranks 46th in teachers' salaries (with a minimum of $900 a year). As recently as World War II, 14% of Old Kentucky's rural homes had no toilet facilities whatever, 83% had only outdoor privies. Per-capita income is the seventh lowest...
...Montgomery, Ala., the first Confederate capita], he was invited to join the Southern Congress in secret session. But on his way to the Capitol, Russell had driven past a slave auction, and he was so upset that he refused point-blank to sit with "a Congress of Slave States." One day beside the Mississippi River, an "an-thropoproprietor" insisted upon conducting him around an evil-smelling set of slave pens, beneath their canopy of flies...
East Pakistan, which has most of the population but only one-third of the country's per capita income, has long felt itself neglected by its prosperous brother, West Pakistan. Two months ago the angry Bengalis of East Pakistan trooped to the polls in the first provincial election since independence, and routed Mohammed Ali's Moslem League from office, leaving it only ten of 309 seats in the local legislature. Into power came a comic United Front-as diverse a group of politicians as ever made common cause-ranging from an Orthodox Islamic party to a Communist outfit...
...throw away (as was done in 1950), not even all potato growers were happy about his decision. As he was announcing his plan, he got a telegram from the Wisconsin Potato Growers Association: "Historically, any Government aid to potato prices has led to surpluses, public resentment and lowered per capita consumption. Please do not put the kiss of death on this next potato crop by providing any form of potato price support...
Changing Times. With changing times and shifting wealth, Florida's tourist trade has also changed. More "people go there than ever before, but they stay for shorter periods and spend, less per capita. To handle the increasing numbers of tourists, more hotels (7.064 rooms) have been built in Greater Miami since the war than in all the rest of the U.S. Last week, in the $200.000 Miami Beach house where Harvey Firestone once wintered, building contractors pored over plans to build the city's biggest hotel, the $11 million, 554-room Fontainebleau. on the site...