Word: appalachia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Handshoe, like all the other "hollers" of Appalachia, is a narrow, creek-carved slash between rugged hills. Measuring six miles from head to foot, it accommodates some 200 mountain folk, a tiny grocery store that also serves as a post office, and a one-room school...
...iron and steel production. The grey taconite rock in which the remaining ore was pocketed appeared too hard and the ore of too low a grade for profitable mining. The pits and shipping docks slowed down, and miners lost their work. Northern Minnesota slowly became an aspen-covered Appalachia...
...smallest charity on the recommended list is a $3,000 school construction project for a depressed area in Appalachia. A program of correspondence courses for Negro students in South Africa is also included on the list. This charity, which is administered by the World University Service to bolster educational opportunity limited by apartheid, has an annual budget...
...after his announcement, Johnson filmed a speech for a weekend meeting of the Bricklayers and Plasterers International Union, received a delegation from Appalachia, attended a couple of parties, invited himself to a cartoonists' luncheon at the National Press Club. Up before 7 a.m. next day, he signed a rural water-and sewage-facilities bill, proclaimed White Cane Safety Day in aid of the blind, chatted by phone with an Army sergeant convalescing in San Francisco from wounds suffered in Viet Nam. He greeted "Miss Wool of 1965," signed a proclamation making Oct. 20 a National Day of Prayer, addressed...
...make for apathy, immobility, unaspiring hopelessness. One Government study by psychiatrists found that many of the poor are "rigid, suspicious, have a fatalistic outlook. They do not plan ahead. They are prone to depression, futility, lack of friendliness and trust in others." In the burned-out mining towns of Appalachia, ninth-generation Anglo-Saxon American men cluster around TV sets that blare from the grim, grimy tar-paper shacks. "They're not much interested in what's on the screen," says John D. Rockefeller IV, a 28-year-old poverty worker in West Virginia, "but it gives them...