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...acknowledge that the loss of faith in our world, our destiny, our religion, is the cloudy and dark climate which most of America finds itself living in today. The individual may do what he likes to further his own gain. The man of wealth owns a whole district of slum dwellings, and feels no pangs of conscience for the hunger, squalor and disease he encourages. The aggressive salesman makes outrageous claims for the product he wishes to sell. The novelist writes a scrofulous book in hope of being on the bestseller list, and television corrupts the public taste ... I seem...
...years following her rise from a Puzzuoli slum, Italian Cinemactress Sophia Loren accumulated fame, fortune and upwards of $500,000 worth of jewelry. Last week in England she had fame, fortune-and only her wedding ring, which she wore when she left a rented chalet near London and drove to meet her husband at the airport. In her absence crooks invaded the chalet, escaped the notice of three occupants, swiped all her other gems. Wailed Sophia, currently working on a movie version of Shaw's The Millionairess: "It is so unjust. My jewels meant so much to me. They...
Expecting the best of everything, prospective tenants flocked to sign three-year leases at fancy rents ($140-$75O a month) while W.S.V. was little more than a big hole in the ground-dug with the aid of $10 million in federal and municipal slum-clearance funds...
...this is, more or less, the story of a fellah who once lived in the Cairo slum of Attarine, is now at Chez Maxim's (where Bandleader Azzam himself hit the big time), and adores his girl "like tomato sauce" (salsa del pommodore in Azzam's pidgin Italian). But the words do not matter. They merely complement the international melody, which tinkles like goat bells near the White Nile and clicks like the heels of an Andalusian gypsy. Scored by Azzam for bongos, flute, tambourine, echo chamber and his own voice, Mustapha is adapted from an Egyptian student...
...Heart Seminary, and a former chaplain in the Catholic Worker movement. He came to Holy Trinity in 1943, was made pastor in 1949. Since he took over, reports Juvenile Court Judge Nathan Kaufman, the area around Holy Trinity Church has had the lowest juvenile delinquency rate of any comparable slum area...