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...second thought, Such Good Friends might have worked better the other way. Preminger is usually funnier -remember Hurry Sundown?-when he's trying to be serious...
...Confederacy, as did organized bands of rural guerillas; its governor established a pro-Confederate government in exile; and martial law had to be imposed to keep the state under Union control. As recently as ten years ago, many of the smaller towns and parts of the larger ones had sundown ordinances prohibiting blacks from being present after dusk. In many places where there was no law, the practise was enforced. Many black men have been savagely beaten and not a few have been killed for being in the wrong place at the wrong time in Missouri...
Barge Man Toward sundown, people began drifting down to the riverbank. A few kids impatiently paddled their toes in the water. A young husband shushed a baby on his shoulder. On the far shore a car pulled up, waited, drove away; the ferry was not running tonight. Then, from the barge floating a few feet out in the rippling Ohio River, the music danced deliciously across the water. This was the big day of the year in Ravenswood, W. Va. (pop. 4,500), and almost everybody was on hand to enjoy...
...wear mid-calf skirts despite summer temperatures of 130° F. Electricity and running water were unknown to most people. The xenophobic Said permitted few foreigners in and fewer Omanis out, but an estimated 200,000 subjects managed to flee during the past ten years. Cannons sounded curfew after sundown. With only three schools in the entire sultanate, the population was more than 90% illiterate. Malnutrition, malaria, tuberculosis, trachoma and leprosy were endemic, but there was only one hospital, staffed by American missionaries. Terrified of assassination, the Sultan abandoned his capital of Muscat and barricaded himself farther down the coast...
THROUGHOUT the Middle East this week, devout Moslems are beginning the annual observance of Ramadan, the month of sunup-to-sundown fasting. This year Ramadan coincides with a possibly more momentous date. Five days after the fast begins, the 90-day cease-fire between Egypt and Israel is scheduled to end. Most likely the truce will continue, but on a de facto basis and not by a formal extension of the original cease-fire arranged by U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers...