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...erupts in the South, newsmen are about as welcome as segregated schools. Tempers can flare at the mere presence of reporters, who are there to record an example of Southern inhospitality. Last week in the little Alabama farm town of Notasulga, local hostility turned into violence-with an ironic twist. The victim was a Southern er: Vernon Merritt III, 23, a freelance photographer from Birmingham. His attackers were officers...
...economy soars past a $600 billion G.N.P. and more Americans live better than ever before, official Washington seems far more intrigued by the fact that it has rediscovered poverty. The plight of the poor provides lively chitchat for capital couples as they twist to Lester Lanin or uncork a bottle of Mouton-Rothschild. Party pros argue the election-year merits of the poverty issue as they slide their steak knives into a Chateaubriand. With some bitterness, Writer-Social Critic Michael Harrington observes: "I guess poverty has become fashionable...
CHIPS WITH EVERYTHING. At an R.A.F. base, lower-class conscripts turn in the twist and rock 'n' roll for folk song and poetry. Playwright Arnold Wesker challenges them with scorching good humor to give up their status quo for rebellion against the class system...
...Tuaregs seem to be related to the Phoenicians, write with an ancient alphabet called tifinagh that can be read from right to left, left to right, up or down. But they use it often to compose erotic poetry or scrawl obscenities on lonely desert rocks. Lukewarm Moslems, the Tuaregs twist the usual Islamic custom by insisting that their men go veiled while the women's faces remain bare. It is not a bad idea, since most Tuareg women are handsome-at least before marriage. Obesity is a sign of beauty among the Tuaregs, and many tribesmen force-feed their...
From Manhattan's Masie Cox, 18, to Washington D.C.'s Nikia Clark, 18, the presentation of 50 girls at the silk-bedecked International Debutante Ball took a full hour before things finally settled down to dancing (the twist was Out, the charleston In). But no one seemed to mind as the girls from 12 foreign lands and 13 American states put on their own beauty contest-each lass escorted by assigned service-academy cadets and personally chosen Ivy League types. Everybody's favorite foreign find was Scotland's bonnie Marney Jane Bulman, 19, and domestically...