Word: squalidity
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...King's men when his mistress cuts his bowstring. The story seems like mere costume drama until it is read beside A Case of Conscience, in which the stone-faced chapel puritans of mid-Victorian times re-enact a similar feud-this time in terms of a squalid yet somehow splendid squabble over the theology and the bricks and mortar of the Resmond Street Independent Church...
...France was shocked. President Coty rushed to the hospital to bow before Chekkal's body; the funeral oration was delivered by Secretary of State for Algerian Affairs Marcel Champeix. While the Cairo radio crowed of a victory and urged terrorists on to greater efforts, police scoured the squalid Algerian quarters of Paris, hauled in 2,900 Moslems for questioning...
Before getting ready to return to Poland and his own precarious balancing act with the Reds, Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski last week formally accepted his titular Roman church (a parish in Rome is traditionally allocated to every cardinal). The squalid neighborhood surrounding the medieval Santa Maria in Trastevere is heavily Communist, but it turned out to give him Rome's biggest welcome to any cardinal within memory. From the altar Wyszynski asked for the peoples' prayers "for myself and for my poor martyred country. Poland has always been, is still today, and always will be the outer rampart...
...result, 875 Moroccan physicians are French, only 19 Moslem; there are 350 French lawyers, only 27 Moslem. The French lived in Morocco as in a good hotel, and luxurious apartment houses overlooked squalid bidonvilles where Arab laborers crowded into shacks roofed over with flattened gasoline tins...
...story by the Trib's able assistant managing editor, Ardis ("Mike") Kennedy, Reporter Norma Lee Browning took a muscular male staffer as escort and started out by scouting the scores of hillbilly hangouts scattered from West Madison Street, Chicago's Skid Row, to "Glitter Gulch" on the squalid South Side. There, in dives that were "wilder than any television western," Reporter Browning set out to stalk and observe a species "whose customs and culture-patterns are as incomprehensible to us as dial telephones are to them." The men mostly sport Levis, black leather jackets and "Presley sideburns...