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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Five Spanish-American citizens of Winslow, Ariz. (pop. 6,500) complained in federal court that people of Mexican or Latin descent are permitted use of the town swimming pool on Wednesdays only, while "Anglos" are allowed to swim on the other six days of the week. The pool's water, they added, is always changed on Thursday...
Hardest hit was proud Vicksburg, on the bluffs overhanging the Mississippi. The tornado struck the city (pop. 27,948) with a noise like a fast-moving freight, toppled markers along the Confederate trenches used during the Civil War siege of Vicksburg, flattened the flimsy shanties of the Negro section, roared through the heart of the business district, demolishing or damaging nearly every store in a twelve-block area, then capriciously hopped several blocks to a northern part of the city before spending itself...
...miles north of the equator, not far from where the Nile rises, the Mountains of the Moon face east towards a mighty lake that could drown the state of West Virginia. On the northern shore of Lake Victoria sits Kampala (pop. 22,000), the chief city of the British protectorate of Uganda and the ancient tribal capital of 1,300,000 Baganda tribesmen...
Christian Mission. Worst hit of all were the drab industrial towns of northern Spain, where factory shutdowns meant less daily bread for the workers. In Bilbao (pop. 230,000), factories and steel plants were rationed to 15 hours of power a week; unemployment soared, wages fell below subsistence. To alleviate the misery and to encourage the workers, Bilbao's energetic young Bishop Casimiro Morcillo González set up a mission whose motto was "Towards a Better Life." All week long, 300 priests used 2,000 loudspeakers to urge "Christian solidarity" for the workers, "social justice" from the employers...
...used to bureaucratic interference to question it, their car was newly coupled to a fast, westward-bound train. With their secret compartment now stocked with hot coffee and thirst-quenching beer, the three generations of fugitive Cechs rolled over the U.S. border into Linz. Next stop: Earlham, Iowa (pop. 771), the home of Bedrich's daughter, Mrs. Ronald K. Brown...