Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Just Craze for Foreign." Against rural resignation stands the excitement of India's great metropolises. Each of the country's major cities-Bombay, Calcutta, New Delhi and Madras-has its own similarities and its own distinctions. Calcutta and Bombay are linked in their visual splendor and their vicious slums; wealth and poverty exist cool cheek by grizzled jowl. Madras, with its burgeoning Hindu evangelism (backed by Shastri's strongman, Congress Party President Kumaraswami Kamaraj), is less metropolitan but more leisurely. Where Bombay is sparked by its Parsi businessmen (descended from 8th century Persian fire worshipers), Madras...
Store-bought bedspreads changed that way of life. The durable coverlets remain as records of folk art in America, quaint but serious documents of the attitudes of a growing nation. Tucked away in the rural U.S. (as well as among urban hobbyists) nimble-thimbled women who follow historic patterns still exist, but the qualities that make a good quilter are hard to come by in modern times. Explains one mistress of the art: "It demands steady nerves, a pleasant temperament, equal dexterity with either hand, an inborn sense of line and form, Job's patience and time galore...
...Philip believes that general confession would make sacramental forgiveness more readily available to more people, bring back to Communion Catholics who for one reason or another cannot or will not confess to a priest. General confession, moreover, would have special value in such countries as Brazil, where millions of rural Catholics see a priest no more than once a month; for many, private confession is impossible. In fact, general confession has been used widely in wartime, when on the eve of battle priests have given conditional absolution to soldiers (who must, however, go to confession if they survive...
...theory, the plant will be able to sell its water for 35? per 1,000 gal. because it will produce two valuable byproducts, electricity and radioactive isotopes. It will turn out 1,000,000 gal. per day-enough for the average needs of 10,000 rural-area people-as well as 2,500 kw. of electricity per hour and up to 500,000 curies of cobalt-60 isotopes per year, which together could be sold for $500,000 annually. Though the 35? price for the desalted water will be above the 30? that Riverhead now pays for regular water...
...potential in a rural community, the Riverhead plant and other small ones offer just a drop in the bucket to thirsty cities such as New York, which daily consumes 1.25 billion gal. The governments of the U.S. and Israel are now jointly studying the possibility of building nuclear desalinization plants with daily outputs of 100 million gal. For the Los Angeles region, Bechtel Corp. has recently completed the first stage of a study calling for a two-reactor nuclear plant that theoretically, by 1972, could turn out 150 million gal. per day, at a cost...