Word: rural
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fewer 25-to 29-year-olds (the Depression babies). In 1960 there will be 42 million schoolchildren, 50% more than in 1950. The present decade's marriages, down 20% from the 1940s, will create only 13.7% more families. The trend to the suburbs will continue during the decade; rural non-farm population will burgeon by more than one-third, to 43 million. California in 1960 will have a population of 14.6 million, a jump of 38.3% over...
Whatever happens, it can only mean more suffering for the peasants. For many it will probably mean hunger and bloodshed. Either Khrushchev wins and reduces the rural population to the status of state serfs, or he will come to grief, as Stalin nearly came to grief before him. One thing is certain: if production cannot be increased, and soon, it will mean the beginning of the end of Soviet Communism. For, in the last resort, the agricultural crisis is not about food; it is about a theory-a theory which heaps suffering on everybody but the men who hold...
Italy's huge Communist Party, rejoicing only a few months ago in its great strength in the labor movement and its substantial minorities in the rural areas, last week was in shambling retreat...
...Opposition. Outside the cities, the Communists were faring even worse. In nationwide elections, Italy's farmers were asked to choose administrators of a newly created agency to distribute medical and sickness benefits in rural areas. As usual, the Communists, who appreciate the political leverage of such handout jobs, organized house-to-house canvassing, plastered posters all over village walls, set up hundreds of meetings...
Between percussioned boredom in the suburbs and rural depravity in the South, All in One offers Paul Draper's clean and stylish tap dancing. Draper seems to have grown more versatile, particularly on the satiric side; but what remains uniquely his is the tapping to classical themes, the suggestion of ballet grace...