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...meditative loneliness, a single customer last week sipped a beer in Chad's Twist Lounge-the only nightclub left in Phenix City (pop. 29.000). on the Alabama side of the Chattahoochie River, across from Columbus. Ga. All that day, members of the Chamber of Commerce had been stringing Christmas lights across the city's main street; a local radio station had hired a plane to bombard the town with colored pingpong balls that were exchangeable for merchandise at the million-dollar Phenix City Plaza Shopping Center; a weekly newspaper glowingly reported plans for the second annual Christmas parade...
Competing with the Kingstons for all those filthy gate receipts are other groups like the Limeliters, Peter-Paul-and-Mary, and the Chad Mitchell Trio, whose most celebrated number is an imitation folk song called The John Birch Society...
...fifth African nation to gain its freedom in a year, and the 28th since 1956. Even informed observers are becoming dazed by the endless roll call of big and little new nations that sound more and more like commuter stops on a train to Timbuctoo: Gambia, Upper Volta, Chad, Dahomey, Mali, Gabon...
Exports: Cotton, rice, cattle. Per capita income: $40. U.S. aid (1961): $100,000. Though twice as big as France, parched Chad has no ports or railways, few roads; thus its agricultural exports cannot compete on world markets, go mostly to France...