Word: northerns
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...both a New Orleanian and a Catholic, facts that count against him in rural and heavily Protestant north Louisiana. Last week Chep Morrison was at pains to emphasize that he was a "native of Pointe Coupee parish," and that he had "lived and worked in the central, southern and northern sections of Louisiana." He found a quaint way to discount any religious prejudice that might militate against him. Said he: "During my administration as mayor for the past ten years, religion has not entered in any way into my administration of the city's public business...
...swift arrows through a ring hung in midair. But Arjuna's mother Kunti told him, "All things must be shared." So the five Pandu brothers all wed Draupadi and went to live in a grand palace with crystal floors. Last week in Jaunswar Bawar, a region in the northern tip of India, the legend of Arjuna the Bowman and the whole practice of polyandry were being put to test...
Three times the size of Texas, Algeria takes in a swatch of the Sahara, two broad seams of the Atlas Mountains, and a 100-mile-wide ribbon of fertile Mediterranean littoral where most of its largely Moslem population lives. Pacified, colonized, civilized through 125 years, Northern Algeria is officially a part of metropolitan France, and sends its Deputies to the Paris Parliament. Its approximately one million European settlers produce enormous quantities of the same wine and wheat that Frenchmen already produce in surfeit at home. Result: it must be subsidized from home, to the tune of some $50 million...
...Four of the six counties in Northern Ireland (Antrim, Armagh, Londonderry and Down) have Protestant majorities, but in the two west-border counties of Fermanagh and Tyrone, Catholics form about 55% of the population...
MINE WORKERS have won the same basic $20 daily wage as workers in the booming steel and auto industries. The miners' John L. Lewis has negotiated a contract with the Bituminous Coal Operators Association, under which 120,000 northern miners (current wages: $18.25) will get their first pay boost in three years: $2 a day, with $1.20 of it going into effect this fall, the rest next April...