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HOLLYWOOD stars are never mere ly "born"- and rarely stay bearable. Even with such uncommon clay as beautiful, white-blonde Kim Novak, 24, now the nation's No. 1 box-office attraction, it took a heap of studio craft to make a star. ("If you wanna bring me your...
Sick Shell. Duncan gets a sense of dislocation as soon as he hits the once-sleepy town of Bradysboro and hears a booster babbling about the "threshold of a new era." At his family's disintegrating tobacco plantation, he finds his father a sick shell, echoing with remembrances of...
But Sheriff Duncan Harper is too highprincipled to let anything illegal alone. So Bootlegger Tallant fights him. His weapon: Beckwith Dozer, a Negro stubborn enough to demand his "rights" and supple enough to let the embattled white men think they are using him. Tallant intends only to discredit the sheriff...
Jim Eastland was born on the Doddsville plantation, and throughout his youth his father, Woods Eastland, steadily increased its size. "Judge" Woods Eastland was a lawyer by profession, and his practice was in Forest (pop. 1,500), in the hill coufitry about 100 miles from Doddsville. It was there that...
¶Moslem and Hindu leaders of Kenya's 120,000 Asians (most of them Indians) demanded the right, as Kenyans, to join in the fight against the terrorist Mau Mau. White settlers, who are outnumbered 3 to 1 by the Indians, 130 to 1 by the native Africans, protested...