Word: rural
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congo has excellent roads because the rural population is compelled to labor on them; it is developing scientific agriculture by forcing peasant farmers to grow minimum quotas of cotton, and jailing them for failure to deliver. Each Negro city dweller is fingerprinted and must carry a plastic identity card attached to his tax receipt. Yet the Congo is one of the few places in Africa where there is practically no racial tension...
Representatives from 21 College and Radcliffe student organizations voted unanimously Wednesday night to support a program through which undergraduates would provide funds to enable a group of Delhi University students to improve living standards in rural Indian villages...
Sociologists and Justices have studied carefully the grave Southern threats that "Negro blood will boil into the gutters of Memphis." Even though many of these gruesome promises are designed merely to discourage radical de-segregation, some Southerners may feel pride-bound to fulfill their rash avowals. Particularly in rural areas, where Negroes compete for jobs directly with whites; where illiteracy, bigotry, and violence combine in a sordid tangle, racist strife seems likely as integration approaches. Yet these social experts could point to Baltimore and Washington as examples of successful rapid integration. They cited numorous cases in labor and military...
...about 20 new churches have been completed in the past year; 23 more are under construction. (The estimated 500,000 Mexican Protestants are also doing better than they used to; they never met as much government opposition as the Catholics, but their proselytizing ran into sharp hostility, particularly in rural areas.) Mexico's churches have not been so crowded in living memory, and among the worshipers are far more men than in the old days, when it was not considered quite macho (manly) for a man to be seen in church alongside the womenfolk...
...opposition. Government agencies, the Hoover Commission recently found, are almost impossible to kill. "REA is an example . . . Although more than 90% of the nation's farms are electrified, the sponsors of the REA program foresee no end to the need for ever-increasing amounts of Government loans for rural electrification." Many another agency is dragging its feet. Probably the worst offenders are in the Defense Department, where empire builders try to justify their activities by crying "national security...