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Married. Katharine Bancroft Schlesinger, 24, daughter of Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., a VISTA volunteer doing domestic Peace Corps chores in Kentucky; and Gibbs Von Kinderman, 23, Harvard '64, performing similar tasks in Tennessee for the Appalachian Volunteers; in Lincoln, Mass...
...Appalachian State Teachers College...
...once asked Washington if we could train some Appalachian girls for the tourist industry under the Manpower Retraining Act," he recalled. "I guess we confounded them. After two years, we stopped trying...
...committing the other heresy. Young "Jay," whose Uncle Nelson runs the New York Statehouse and Uncle Winthrop is running for the one in Arkansas, is filing as a candidate for the West Virginia house of delegates-as a Democrat. At present, Jay is a neighborhood worker in Action for Appalachian Youth, a field that's ideal for a Rockefeller: he is fighting poverty...
Strip coal mining has provoked a heap of feudin' and fightin' lately in the poverty-pocked Appalachian Mountains of eastern Kentucky. Behind the legal protection of mineral-rights grants dating from the last century, companies have let mine debris bury trees, pollute streams with fish-killing acids, even damage homes with boulders and shale cascading down mountainsides. One woman watched in horror as a bulldozer uprooted the coffin of her infant son, sent it tumbling down the hill behind her house. Since last summer, sporadic gunfire has erupted between the angry mountaineers and the armed guards...