Word: appalachians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SMOKY MOUNTAIN BALLADS (RCA Victor). Country music before it left the hills. Reissues from the '30s by Southern Appalachian fiddlers, banjo pickers and balladeers like Uncle Dave Macon, the Carter Family, and Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers...
...calculated to win to his cause any sizable new segment of voters. Everybody remembers how he went out of his way to alienate audiences, attacking TVA in Tennessee, medicare in front of Florida pensioners, and the President's anti-poverty campaign in the depressed, eleven-state Appalachian region. Now, as his prospects of election became dimmer and dim mer, he sounded wilder and wilder in his charges against the Johnson Administration...
...legislators were determined to get home to campaign. In their impatience to end it all, they angrily refused to approve two of Lyndon Johnson's priority programs: a $1 billion project of federal aid to rejuvenate the economy of the Appalachian region and Social Security-financed medical care for the aged. Both plans had passed the Senate. Appalachia died because Democrats could not muster enough votes to get an authorization bill through the House. Medicare died in a Senate-House conference committee, mainly because of the opposition of House Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills...
...explained that the 3700-acre Harvard Black Rock Forest is "remarkable for its hardwoods characteristic of the middle Appalachian region and important for the study of silviculture and conservation practices...
...that, Oliva went to visit a buddy who was playing for the Charlotte, N.C., Hornets-a Twins farm club. The Hornets didn't want him either. Out of charity, the general manager got Tony a berth on the Wytheville, Va., Twins, a Class D team in the Appalachian Rookie League. And all of a sudden Tony started hitting baseballs with his unconnected swing...