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...Hale County, Ala., last week local registrars started using the state's new, simplified literacy test, which requires applicants to copy the state constitution in longhand and answer questions from this copy. Officials flunked 54 out of 93 Negro applicants...
...attending the Vatican's Ecumenical Council. Her ef forts to seduce him succeed only after a daring striptease before the keyhole of his connecting room and a final confrontation at a distant rendezvous, where she awaits him gingerly clutching a bed sheet. This week a Roman magistrate will hale Gina, along with Producer Giovanni Lucari, into court to answer charges of violating Article 528 of the penal code, banning immoral exhibitions...
...infatuation for the dance began when she took a few ballet lessons as a budding debutante in St. Louis. Her "career" ended at 19, when she appeared in Aïda and was reprimanded by her stockbroker father for not wearing enough clothes. In 1947 she married FinancierPhilanthropist William Hale Harkness, inherited his fortune in Standard Oil holdings when he died seven years later. Searching for a vocation "superior to the way of life I was born to-society," she took a stab at interior decorating, sculpting and piano playing, eventually turned to writing semiclassical music...
...Norton Simon startled museum trustees by offering matching funds for a separate art museum. Museum President Edward Carter, a shrewd retailer (Broadway-Hale Stores) as well as chairman of the University of California's Board of Regents, set out to raise $4,500,000, and through his persuasion wound up with $12 million. At a white-tie extravaganza last week, Comedian Bob Hope called the museum "the most magnificent tax deduction I've ever seen." He had a right to say so: he donated...
...Young Dems will also see Sargent arriver, director of the Peace Corps and of the Office for Economic Opportunity, Undersecretary of Commerce Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. '37, Congressmen Hale Boggs (D-La.) and Henry S. Duss...