Word: hinterlands
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Simple inertia is another problem, and not only on small papers in the hinterland. The New York Daily News, with the largest seven-day circulation in the country, still offers generally unimaginative fare, as does the New York Post. The Philadelphia Bulletin has not exactly lost its breath chasing changing times either. Marjorie Paxson, the Bulletin's women's editor, defends her paper's approach: "I think people here are very interested in society. Not all of the city is ghettos by any means. It is up to me to strike a balance." When the paper...
...existence of the Tasaday, as the tribesmen call themselves, came to light after a trapper named Dafal reported that he had encountered a mysterious people on his hunting trips into the hinterland. Philippine officials checked out the rumor via helicopter and found a group of short, brown-skinned tribesmen wearing only loincloths...
...Hart, 45, who is black. "In that sense we are not the city. But we are just a few bricks removed from it." For many of the blacks, East Orange has been the first step out from the city, from Newark or New York, a reach for a suburban hinterland of open space and green grass and fresh air. Once it was that for wealthy whites. Long before World War II, it was a gracious, self-contained suburb with some mansions that verged on the palatial, imposing apartment buildings, a Baptist seminary and Upsala College...
...South Viet Nam's I Corps. the northernmost military region. If they continue to establish supply lines and depots through the Laotian panhandle and northeastern Cambodia, they will be in a position to strike hard at II Corps (the Central Highlands) and III Corps (Saigon's hinterland). The threat to withdrawing U.S. troops, according to this line of speculation, would be great...
Already, millions of city dwellers -students, Red Guards, factory workers, intellectuals-have been packed off to work in hinterland communities. Before all 840 of China's campuses were closed during the Cultural Revolution, there were 800,000 students. Now, with so many college-age youths down on the farms, China's college population stands at a mere 80,000 at about a dozen universities. Peking's rustication program has not pleased a good many citified professionals who are forced to become "barefoot" doctors and teachers...