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...shoes and textiles, imports rich tourists. Kingston is where Harry Belafonte had to "leave a little girl" in the famed calypso song. ¶ Trinidad (pop. 622,500). the richest (per-capita yearly income: $434), bustles with its prosperous oil industry. It stages the hemisphere's most tireless pre-Lenten carnival dance, in which the performer leans over backwards and wriggles under a bar nine inches off the floor. Racially, it is a polyglot of Negro. East Indian, Portuguese and Chinese. ¶ Barbados grows seven-eighths of a ton of sugar a year for each of its 230,500 inhabitants...
...Speaking to Lenten preachers, priests and seminarians, Pope Pius XII condemned the sexy art work that enlivens Roman walls. "To choose only one recent case," he said, "an important daily newspaper gave a highly colored description of two huge licentious posters . . . Who can tell what ruin in souls, especially those of youngsters, such images may provoke, how many dirty thoughts and feelings they may produce . . . ?" Within a few days a brigade of poster men were out with their buckets and brushes covering the life-large posters of buxom Cinemactress Marisa Allasio...
...thunderclap of ecclesiastical anger cracked last week around the ears of Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, Colombia's Roman Catholic President. It was set off by the Lenten pastoral letter of Crisanto Cardinal Luque, couched in the measured terms of churchly tradition, yet unmistakably a cry of cold indignation against the recent bull ring massacre (TIME, Feb. 20) in which Rojas' political opponents were maimed and killed by government thugs for having booed his daughter at the bullfights the week before...
...Lenten and Easter Oratorios (Sat. 11:15 p.m. NBC). The Mozart Requiem...
...Speaking to his first mass audience since his illness, and for the first time in three years well enough to deliver his traditional Lenten address in person, Pope Pius XII, 79, read a 20-minute allocution to 1,000 of Rome's parish priests, Lenten preachers and lay members of Catholic Action. Warning against disunity, impatience and excessive zeal in bringing lost and wavering souls back into the church, he urged them to "push souls gently but firmly towards Jesus." Later in the week the Pope showed his continued strength by participating in a 90-minute ceremony celebrating...