Word: appalachians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they call a "British gypsy folk-music band." Mike admired the poems that Robin had been scribbling. Robin was impressed with the songs that Mike had been writing. Yet when they decided to string along with each other, they thought they were forming a jug band to play traditional Appalachian tunes. Could they have foreseen that ahead lay Atlantis and soapy pictures like crocodiles? Incredible...
...sending him to the Senate. The vote for Independent George P. Mahoney, an eight-time loser of Wallace-type opinions, cut into the total for liberal Democratic Incumbent Daniel B. Brewster. Winner Mathias, 46, a hard-working House member since 1961, has backed civil rights, education bills, Medicare, Appalachian aid, rent supplements and even rat control...
Since the spread of cable TV systems, the U.S. has been buried under a blanket of television. According to the Nielsen ratings service, approximately 95% of U.S. households have TV sets. But what of the remaining 5%? Some live in mountain areas like Appalachian Georgia, or the new ski-resort town of Vail, Colo., where cable TV has not yet penetrated. Some Americans cannot afford to buy a TV set, although more American homes have TV than have telephones or bathrooms, and, as the Kerner Commission reported, television is "the universal appliance in the ghetto." Thus, many...
...campaign was also plagued by internal dissent. Resurrection City, heavily black, sprouted some white ghettos, including one populated by Appalachian mountain folk and another by hippies who dubbed their enclave "Diggerville" and festooned their shelters with gaily colored cloth and psychedelic banners. There was an angry flare-up over the black monopoly on policymaking. "Black militants have taken over, and nobody else gets a chance to talk," protested Reies Lopez Tijerina, leader of a group of 200 Mexican-Americans quartered at the private Hawthorne School about a mile from the shantytown. He complained that brown, red and white Americans were...
...been involved in a number of larger social movements--with the Civil Rights movement in the South, with the Appalachian volunteers, with migrant farmers and with groups that have been trying to effect very fundamental changes...