Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...United Klans of America, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Inc., headquartered in Tuscaloosa, Ala., with an ex-tire salesman named Robert Shelton as its Imperial Wizard. Estimates of Klan strength range from 10,000 to 40,000 members, many of whom for some peculiar reason seem to be rural service-station attendants. Most members, in any case, are deluded rednecks whose only skill is sharpshooting. That the FBI has infiltrated deeply into their ranks is indicated by the speed with which agents rounded up the four suspected killers of Mrs. Liuzzo...
...year-old monarch still has the wholehearted support of the countryside. After all, Hassan is the deified leader of a deeply religious nationalism, and nearly 75% of all Moroccans are country folk who revere both royalty and Allah. Confident of rural support, Hassan last week dropped earlier government charges that the riots had been provoked by "foreign agitators" (translated Ahmed ben Bella) and in a radio broadcast couched in peasant Arabic, focused the blame on "three disappointed elements" in Moroccan society: the students, the unemployed and the "malcontents." He announced no spectacular solution for Morocco's plight, only demanded...
...speculating about how "cute" the one-teacher, one-room school must have been. Yet for a surprising number of children, this kind of school is neither quaint nor historical: they attend one daily. Despite the big trend toward consolidation, some 10,000 one-room schools still function in rural America...
...number has been dropping steadily: from 196,037, or 70% of public grade schools, in 1918, to 13,330, about 20%, in 1960. To survive, a one-room school has to be firmly rooted in its isolated location far from population centers and in the fierce pride of rural residents who want their own school and fear the "corrupting" influence-and higher taxes-of the town school districts. The one-room school is most numerous in such Midwest states as Nebraska, Wisconsin and the Dakotas, most hardy in the mountain regions of Montana, Colorado and Nevada...
...score is a modern patchwork, ranging from bouncy rural rhythms to streaks of dissonance, used most effectively in underlining Lizzie's mounting anxiety. But for the most part, it is unobtrusive by design. Says Beeson: "The whole focus is on the stage...