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...have two wars on our hands, and we can't afford to lose either." As Republicans press for cuts in domestic spending, there is bound to be a series of bitter "guns or butter" appropriations battles. Among the more vulnerable targets for cuts: the space program, the Appalachian Regional Development Act, the Area Redevelopment program, the housing bill's rent-subsidy plan, and virtually any public works that can be dropped without too loud a political uproar...
...freshman at West Virginia University and a true mountaineer of the Appalachian state of West Virginia, I congratulate TIME on an accurate report on the people of Handshoe Hollow...
...Indeed, so long as his aide's enormous energy supply lasts, there is no reason why Johnson cannot keep tossing him additional chores as they come up. McNamara is already chairman of both the President's Advisory Committee on Supersonic Transport and the interagency committee of the Appalachian Regional Commission...
...resist change in any form, the anti-poverty warriors face obstacles as impervious as the Cumberland's timber-topped mountains. To date, Washington has poured $1.2 billion into its Appalachia program, mostly for 3,350 miles of new roads; the aim is to lure new industries to Appalachian cities and give mountaineers ready access to the jobs thus created. But, as evidenced by the few person-to-person anti-poverty projects that have been launched thus far under the program, the challenges of transforming the mountaineer into a middle-class American have become even more evident...
Room to Prank. By comparison with a city slum, an Appalachian holler offers an infinitely rich, exciting life, which mountain folk extol in a courtly tongue directly descended from their Scots-English ancestors, who first penetrated the region two centuries ago. Children have creeks to fish in, plenty of room to "prank," as their parents say. Last hog-killing time, several of the Handshoe boys dried a hog's bladder, filled it with peas to make a giant-size rattle. Then, relates Floyd's wife Dollie, still shaking with laughter at the memory, they "took and tied...