Word: appalachia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...losing its crystalline beauty to the spreading stain of sewage produced by thousands of tourists attracted to gaudy new hotels, casinos and roadhouses. Sewage is doing the same thing to upstate New York's Chautauqua Lake, the famous site of open-air lectures and summer artistry. In Appalachia, strip miners have ravaged the hills for ore and left behind a gutted horizon that, says one native, "makes my stomach turn." Thousands of acres of Atlantic coast marshland, home of waterfowl and spawning ground for oysters and clams, are being filled in by marina-minded resort builders...
...Passed, by a 246-to-138 vote in the House, a $3.25 billion public-works program that extends the regional-aid approach of the Appalachia program to other depressed areas such as the Ozarks and northern New England. The bill now goes to a Senate-House conference. ¶ Refused, by voice vote in the Senate, to prohibit use of U.S. Information Agency funds to film the life story of the President or any other Government official. Republican Senator John J. Williams of Delaware offered the amendment after revealing that about $80,000 of the propaganda agency's funds already...
West Virginia's handsome 41-year-old executive mansion in Charleston, once thought to be a safe place in which to brood about the ills of Appalachia, was suddenly declared a disaster area. A crew of workmen sprucing up the house lifted some floorboards, discovered that termites had chomped into the wooden beams and joists, and now the building is tilting and the stairways are slanting. Eaten out of house and home, Democratic Governor Hulett C. Smith, 46, evacuated his wife and five children to his own place in Beckley, 52 miles away, there to await the restoration...
...APPALACHIA. This bill is aimed at fostering economic development in depressed segments of eleven states, by road construction and other means, at a cost of $1.1 billion. Signed...
Speedup. Of all new crime-fighting ideas, the most promising are those using computers for a quantum speedup in standard police procedures. The basic problem-information retrieval-became painfully clear to New York State police when they collared more than 75 alleged Mafia leaders at the famous Appalachia meeting of 1957. Since the suspects all refused to talk, the cops duly set out to assemble their records. As it turned out, one man alone was the subject of 200 separate police files, and the whole job took more than two years...