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Meanwhile, back across the river in Lauderdale, the Church of Christ preacher who led the opposition to alcohol in Colbert, Lamar Plunket, said the county was in sorry shape. "Alcoholism has increased," he said over a plate of barbecue, turnip greens, pinto beans and sweet potatoes. "Our churches are getting more calls for clothing, for food, because people, once they get on this thing, they're going to have it even if the family goes hungry. And I can't verify this personally, but I've had reports of nude-type dancing in some of the bars...
...Plunket said the economy in Colbert beat his campaign there, that people in the area really had not had a change of heart. Unemployment in Colbert County stood at 20.9% at the beginning of last year and had fallen to 17.3% toward the end, much of the drop attributable to alcohol. The retail-sales growth rate in Colbert County for the first nine months of 1982, the latest available figure, nearly doubled the 1.81% growth rate of the state, while Lauderdale County next door fell to less than half the state average...
Five new saints besides Mother Seton were also named by the Pope: three Spaniards, an Italian and one Irishman, Archbishop Oliver Plunket, primate of Ireland from 1669 to 1681. Beginning in 1673, Irish priests were forced into hiding or exile, and Plunket had to carry on his pastoral work in secrecy and disguise. Arrested in 1679, he was hanged by the English two years later on trumped-up treason charges. Given the bloody religious war now raging in Ulster, the choice of Plunket for canonization in the Holy Year of 1975 seemed to many politically inept...
Still, Jim Plunket is one of the less polemical of personalities in the sports world. His devotion to his profession is unquestioned. If he has a free evening, away from reviewing films or an oversized playbook, he might spend it reading and listening to Stevie Wonder or eating at Himmy's Harborside or Charlie's. But he generally shies away from the limelight and prefers to have "little get-togethers" with teammates or friends from Stanford, including his old-time friend and favorite receiver Randy Vataha...
...mellowing age of 32, Designer Mary Quant, the grand old lady of miniskirts and hippy styles, decided that it was time to reminisce. In Quant by Quant, a precocious autobiography, she gaily details the way she broke into hot couture with her husband and business manager, Alexander Plunket Greene. "We were mad; the whole thing was hysterical," writes Mary, recalling the opening of their famous Bazaar shop in Chelsea. "The trade ignored us, they laughed at us openly." But she gives high fashion the needle right back. Mary observes happily: "Quite a number of the women who are awarded...