Word: appalachian
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...John Kennedy: "I had no feel for Kennedy at all. Kennedy was a European. All you have to do is tabulate how many times Kennedy crossed the Atlantic and how many times he crossed the Appalachian Mountains and you know where he belonged...
While Bayreuth boasted a Wagnerian summit, Statesville, N.C., happily mustered the top names in folk and country music. To that city, nestled among the Appalachian foothills, there came last weekend such established bluegrass gurus as Earl Scruggs and Red Allen...
...many sociologists see it, the Negro (along with most Puerto Ricans, Mexican-Americans and Appalachian whites) is part of a "subculture of poverty," and his riots are mainly economic in origin. But a U.C.L.A. study of the 1965 Watts riots found that it was not just the poorest Negroes who were riot-prone. "A significant number of Negroes, successful or unsuccessful, are emotionally prepared for violence as a strategy or solution to end the problem of segregation, exploitation and subordination," said the report. For those who are "better off," it added, resentment may be vented by joining a riot...
...public universities. Except in football, huge Ohio State (37,000 full-time students) has seldom set the pace among its fellow Big Ten schools. Currently, something of the small colleges' quality and style is being achieved by State's little-known sister school, Ohio University, in the Appalachian town of Athens...
...upper house were his Algeria speech and a bill to correct union abuses that was incorporated into the Landrum-Griffin Act. Though still a freshman, Bobby has successfully introduced four well-reasoned amendments-one providing for federal checks on the quality of schools receiving Government aid; one extending Appalachian aid to 13 New York counties; one aimed at the state's 1,000,000 Puerto Ricans, permitting non-English-speaking citizens to vote if they have attended American-flag schools and are literate in another language; and one directing the President to establish a long-range planning committee...