Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nguyen Hy Van, chairman of the Vietnamese National Voluntary Service (NVS), outlined last night a program which is enabling Vietnamese students "to become aware of rural problems and to contribute actively to their country...
...speeches, sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Liberal Union, will present a plan for urban-rural cooperation in South Vietnam. The VYA, like its American counterpart, places special emphasis on direct personal contact. Its plan involves the transfer of skilled labor to rural areas in order to equalize the rural and urban standards of living...
...currently leading the Buddhist activists in Saigon and is clearly emerging as Tri's rival. The two leaders moved 50 chaplains into the South Vietnamese army and set up two ambitious institutes, one for religious and the other for secular affairs, with plans to organize families in rural areas into Communist-like cells...
Though small-town doctors are in a minority in the A.M.A., they get the Association presidency disproportionately often. This is not so much the result of rural overrepresentation as of the facts of medico-political life. The small-town doctor has fewer professional societies to occupy him than his big-city colleagues have; he devotes relatively more time to his county medical society. Dr. Appel, during most of his professional life, has been methodically working his way up the ladder of medical-society office holding, first at the county level, then the state, and for 19 years as a member...
...correspondence seldom strayed far from his own predicament, but it was rarely tedious and frequently charming. A meeting with Yeats produced a conflict between Frost's sharp literary sense ("the man of the last 20 years in English poetry") and his common sense. Yeats thought rural matters quaint and believed in leprechauns, and Frost had just spent nine years rooting stones out of his New Hampshire pasture without any converse with the spirit world. There is a wonderful raspberry at Carl Sandburg ("His mandolin pleased some people, his poetry a very few and his infantile talk none...