Word: riche
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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...
Some countries have been tougher on whites than others. Prime examples: Tanzania, which as Tanganyika once had 22,700 whites, now has 17,000. Last year Julius Nyerere's oft-muddled government confiscated 34,000 acres of rich white-owned farmlands merely to assuage African resentments (and perhaps to undercut Communist pressures from within the government). But even at that, Tanzania's Agriculture Minister is a moderate ex-colonial, Derek Bryceson, who was overwhelmingly re-elected last month as a Government Party stalwart. Salaam is as benign and friendly a city as a European could hope to visit...
There are several provisions of the Higher Education Act that could apply to Harvard, but the University has so far expressed no intention of making use of them. The provision for subsidizing cooperation between rich and "struggling" colleges, for example might be used to give financial support to Harvard's two-year-old Miles College Project of informal teacher and student exchanges. Or Harvard might ask for funds under the "community services" title of the Act to improve and expand its program of extension courses or, possibly, to subsidize PBH tutoring programs...
Crimson captain David Allen broke the record for the new five-mile course by nearly 80 seconds, as twelve other finishers also cracked the old mark of 27:19.5. Allen's time was 26 minutes flat, seven seconds ahead of Princeton's Rich Gelsel...
Harvard will be strengthened in the goal, however, by the return to action of Rich Hammond, who was also hurt at Cornell. Coach Bruce Munro may or may not start Hammond in place of fast-developing Norris Childs, but in any event the Crimson will once again have depth at the goalie position...