Word: appalachia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first official trip outside Washington since becoming First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson visited the Appalachia section of Pennsylvania, where thousands of families live in the poverty of a dismal past. Last week she made her second trip-an excursion into the future at the Huntsville, Ala., Marshall Space Flight Center, where she saw the Saturn moon rocket...
...Andes to Appalachia. Johnson's words could hardly have been more heartening for his audience. He emphasized his determination "to meet all the commitments" of the Kennedy Administration's ten-year, $20 billion development program for the Alliance. "We will carry forward our Alliance for Progress," the President promised the OAS ambassadors, "in such a way that men in all lands will marvel at the power of freedom to achieve the betterment...
Conceding that the Alliance has had "difficulties and flaws," he spoke with feeling of land and tax reforms, of education and economic progress for "every American, from the Indian of the Andes to the impoverished farmer of Appalachia." Already, said William D. Rogers, deputy coordinator of the program, the Alliance has made "substantial" advances...
...Leaping with no excuse at all from inoffensive phrases in the poem, Kinbote plunges into lengthy accounts of the Zemblan king's idyllic boyhood, his pederastic youth, his glorious escape during the revolution, and the academic education that allowed the incognito expatriate to land a lecturing job at Appalachia University in New Wye, U.S.A...
What Kennedy aims to aid are the "islands of unemployment" such as the melancholy textile towns of New England, the played-out coal regions of Appalachia,' and the planemaking centers of the Pacific Coast. The President figures that the Government could rapidly create up to 200,000 jobs in these depressed areas by helping to finance construction and mod ernization of hospitals, roads, sewers and the like. But while these projects can be started quickly, they are also fairly quickly finished-meaning that the jobs they generate will be only temporary...