Word: appalachia
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...doctors all have had considerable past experience with conditions in the South and Appalachia. Coles, for example, lived in Georgia, Mississippi and Louisiana between 1958 and 1964 to study how children adjust to impoverished conditions...
...other doctors who compiled the Mississippi report have decided to continue exerting pressure on the government by making further inspection forays into poor rural areas. They will probably tour some part of Appalachia within the year, Coles said yesterday...
...countryside to date has been on her father's 8,000-acre estancia 250 miles from Buenos Aires, where she rides a caballo criollo-an Argentinian equivalent of the American cow pony-among a herd of 2,000 Aberdeen Angus. She will probably be assigned to Appalachia...
...legislation in May. His chief dilemma: who should pay to reclaim orphaned "spoil banks"-land that was stripped before there were any laws by miners who are no longer around. The Interior Department estimates that there are some 800,000 acres of barren, orphaned land in the twelve-state Appalachia region alone, pegs the cost of reclaiming them at $250 million...
...midweek the President flew to Nashville, Tenn., to join Lady Bird at the end of her threeday, 1,500-mile tour of Appalachia's schools. "I stood it for two days," he said, after bounding down the ramp of Air Force One and bussing Lady Bird, "but I couldn't last out the third one." To mark Andrew Jackson's 200th birthday, the Johnsons breakfasted at the Hermitage, later visited the home of James Polk, a President whose name often gets lost in the jumble between Jackson and Lincoln but who turned the U.S. into a conti...