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...Some medical services, such as eye and dental examinations, tests for high blood pressure and other common medical problems, are available. The emphasis is on prevention rather than treatment. "We do not treat people here," explains the Rev. Judith Cook, a Presbyterian minister and registered nurse who heads the Appalachian program. "We want people to know what health care is all about, what it has to offer, and why it is important...
Campaign Continental would require Continental Oil to improve conditions in its Appalachian coal mines, where most of the recent great mining disasters have occurred. Because Conoco filed its resolution late, the Securities Exchange Commission does not force it to include the resolution in management's proxy solicitations, so the Campaign is soliciting on its own. It's unlikely that Harvard will support this resolution, since the ACSR, for example, considers solicitations from non-management groups, if at all, only after its other business--in all probability, after Conoco's annual meeting...
...legislation-part Roosevelt New Deal, part Kennedy New Frontier, part Johnson's own Great Society -poured forth in housing, antipoverty programs, education, conservation, civil rights, Medicare. After his crushing defeat of Senator Barry Goldwater in 1964, Johnson pushed through such bills as the Highway Beautification Act and the Appalachian Regional Development Act. The $11.5 billion tax reduction had already aided a major economic surge, though his manipulation of the budget set the stage for the present inflation. By White House count, 252 measures were requested in four years and 226 passed, for an incredible presidential score...
...wall"; for the time he roared round the world in less than five days in 1967 and wound up dropping in on the Pope to see if anything could be done about freeing U.S. war prisoners; and for the many times he would stop to talk farming with an Appalachian family or drop in on the old folks in the new nursing home down in Johnson City. "Didn't he live well?" Lady Bird Johnson asked a friend beside the bier in Austin last week. He certainly...
Pastoral and elegiac in mood, Duo for Flute and Piano is a chamber-music gem that should become a staple of the scant flute literature. In it, Copland returns to the comparatively simple harmonic and melodic world of Appalachian Spring, though the piece is far from simple to play. "Ai-yai-yai-yai-yai! Copland cried out repeatedly at the recording session as he missed one or another of his own notes. A few feet away, Shaffer smiled sweetly back, having nothing to swear about, since she misses a note about as often as the sun fails to come...