Word: appalachia
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...offer a partial answer. Wealth and poverty have a certain connection. As we have rushed ahead toward more efficient systems of production, we have been pretty careless about the people who got left behind in the process. I remember, in the early Kennedy years when attention was focused on Appalachia, writing speeches for the Secretary of Labor saying that we had the cheapest coal in the world because we had the cheapest coal miners...
...interstate cooperation are Bartlett Cram, industrial consultant; Hamilton South, a former Marine brigadier general who is now a vice president of Albany's National Commercial Bank and Trust Co.; and Clifford Barnes, executive vice president of the Rutland, Vt., Chamber of Commerce. Their plan: tie the "Appalachia of New England" together with a 367-mile superexpressway from Amsterdam, N.Y., to Calais...
Population gain, of course, is no longer entirely a source of the civic booster's pride. It offends the ecological sensibility. Yet it remains crucial to underdeveloped regions such as Appalachia and urban centers that watch their affluent whites desert to suburbs, eroding the tax base and more simply the fund of human beings on whom congressional representation and the apportionment of federal funds depend. More people to get more money to care for more people. The Malthusian Catch...
Dewey and Friedland, like their Hollywood forefathers, have also apparently learned that imitation is not only the sincerest form of flattery, but it is also one of the surest signs of success. Jump, which is about stock-car racers in Appalachia, is described as "like The Hustler, except that the Paul Newman character doesn't have a pool cue-he drives a car." The budget on that one will be Cannon's limit, $300,000. With that kind of money, they reason, even if the picture bombs in the big Northern cities, they can still turn a handy...
Harvard Psychiatrist Robert Coles, who has studied ego strength among working-class children, is fed up with scholars of "alienation," who "never analyzed Mexican Americans, kids from Montana, black kids or those from Appalachia." If they did so, he says, they would find that "the old-fashioned family pulling together is by no means extinct in this country." Coles is delighted to meet "16-year-old men and women growing up with a definite sense of identity, just working hard and trying to get a paycheck, somehow being responsive to their parents?and not going to a shrink five times...