Word: appalachians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They are the rural dispossessed-Southern Negroes, Appalachian whites, Puerto Ricans, Mexican-Americans-who fill the urban void left by middle-class migration to the suburbs. They share the American dream of salvation by education and go to the public school that everyone says will save them. Why is it that just the opposite happens so often in city schools across the country...
Better Blends. A good example of the coal-rail partnership is the Norfolk & Western, which runs coal directly to port out of the rich Appalachian fields. In operation at Hampton Roads is the first of two units of N. & W.'s $25 million coal Pier 6, the world's largest coal-loading fa cility. Its huge conveyor belts are capable of carrying coal to ships at a maximum rate of 20,000 tons an hour. Among oth er modern improvements, the pier also "custom-blends" coal for customers, not unlike a careful mixing of Turkish and Virginia tobaccos...
...name sounds like the nonsense syllables of a school yell: Rabun Gap-Nacoochee. The school that bears the name is every bit as unusual. It is half private, half public. Set in the Appalachian foothills of northeastern Georgia, it aims to work not only the minds but also the muscles of its teen-age students. "We believe there is education in physical work, in spiritual development, in living together," says its president, Karl Anderson...
Throughout the Appalachian region where corners of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland and Virginia tangle together, hundreds of farmers agree with disgruntled Dairyman Beck in blaming cloud seeding for the worst drought in a generation. The farmers are furious at the area's fruitgrowers, who are sponsoring the seeding-and with increasing frequency, the threat is heard that somebody's going to get hurt...
...Prevent Hail. During the warm months, the Appalachian fruit region is occasionally pelted by hailstones as big as golf balls, which smash and bruise the ripening apples and peaches. In 1957, after a year of especially heavy hail damage, fruitgrowers in the four states got together in an organization called the Blue Ridge Weather Modification Association. They hired a cloud-seeding firm to combat the costly hail...