Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...training by their local principals or superintendents because despite signs of roughly normal intelligence they were either failing or were at least a grade behind in reading. In fact, 80 of the boys were 31 grades behind. They come from such varied backgrounds as affluent suburbs, private schools, impoverished rural or mountain areas, and Negro slum areas in such cities as Charlotte and Durham (20% of the class is Negro...
...delegation in the seclusion of the ladies' powder room at a Rhodesian airbase. Scarcely had Bottomley landed in Salisbury than he was whisked off to nearby Domboshawa for an indaba (powwow) with 600 government-paid chiefs and headmen. One after another, the chiefs, who are the leaders of rural tribes but have little following in the cities, stood up to attack British insistence on dealing with black nationalist politicians instead of "the true leaders of the people, the chiefs." Britain has meddled too long in Rhodesian affairs, said one red-robed patriarch: "We want our independence now-tonight...
...Still a third Belaunde program is cooperation popular, the great self-help effort that he has been urging on Peru's masses for years. The government supplies technical assistance, materials, some cash. The people do the work. Coop-Pop has already resulted in 3,300 new rural and slum classrooms, 600 miles of country roads, 21 football fields, 40 parks, 36 canals, 21 reservoirs, 65 community centers, 48 churches and chapels. With his flair for the dramatic, Belaunde gave the program a lift just before his 51st birthday in October 1963, asking Peruvians to forget about the birthday baubles...
...process. The last two revenuers killed in a liquor raid were shot a little more than a year ago in Alabama's Bibb County. Even so, argued the feds in U.S. v. Gainey, chances that innocent hunters may stumble on stills are "very, very small. Other rural possibilities-a lost motorist or an airman who parachutes to safety-are even more remote." Indeed, the feds figured the odds against a stranger ever tangling with moonshiners...
Asbell spends most of his pages talking about the educational deficiencies that keep us from taking full advantage of automation. He discusses illiteracy, hard-core poverty, and the rural areas and Negro ghettoes that breed the unemployable. A man who mines coal all day does not, reports Asbell, come out "an adventure-minded man. Most of his intellectual powers must go toward the discipline of accepting his dull, dank existence without questioning, without wondering, without upsetting the influence of ambition. To live, one's ambition must die." The "wretched tasks" and discrimination of the "pre-automation" age are, according...