Word: rural
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suffered a heart attack in 1950, Earl did not spare himself. Month after month he ranged the state, six to eight speeches a day, spit and scratch, handing out free hams and groceries, bringing on the hillbilly boys, whooping it up in the backwoods to break the monotony of rural life. There are 64 parishes (counties) in Louisiana, and Earl Long carried all but Orleans and nearby Plaquemines...
...reading vocabulary of 400 to 600 sight words; by the end of the sixth, 7,200 to 8,500. But some will have more and some many less, and this brings the teacher hard up against one of the knottiest problems in modern education. "I was in one rural school," says Superintendent Paul West of Fulton County, Ga.. "where there were 17 children in one class with IQs ranging from 48 to 152." Reading ability varies accordingly. In 1944, St. Louis found that of its 7,380 eighth-graders, 138 read below fourth-grade level, 353 at fourth...
...Cancer seems more frequent in urban than rural areas...
...program begins August 15 with seminars and three-week periods living with a rural and an urban family. This is followed by vacation in Denmark, Norway of Swedon. From November to May students may enroll in one of the folk schools. An intensive language course runs throughout the program...
...Wide expansion of private health-insurance plans for aged and rural people, plus new emphasis on protection for the long-term "catastrophic illnesses" that are not now covered. Reinsurance or pooling of risk, with federal participation if necessary, would encourage insurance companies to broaden their coverage...