Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Side by Side. After the discovery of the car, Attorney General Robert Kennedy ordered a full-scale search by an army of FBI agents he had ordered into the state. The Mississippi Highway Patrol came alive, worked with the federals in beating the swamps of Neshoba County and questioning rural residents. President Johnson sent one time CIA Director Allen Dulles to Jack son to confer with Mississippi Governor Paul Johnson on the state's law-enforcement capabilities-and its willingness to cooperate. After a one-day trip, Dulles reported back that "a very real and very difficult problem which...
Next to drunkenness, the national vice, Norway's biggest problem is that it has too many languages. Riksmal, of Danish origin, is spoken by educated townsfolk; nationalists have promoted an invented "Norwegian" tongue called Landsmal, based on rural speech. Both Riksmal and Landsmal are now official languages and taught in school. "If a man knows eight languages," they say, "seven of them are Norwegian...
...would give the Republicans greater legislative representation in the South, where their greatest voter strength is in underrepresented cities. It should also give the G.O.P. greater representation from the U.S.'s generally Republican, fast-growing suburbia. It may hurt the Republicans in their old stronghold, the Midwest, where rural interests have long had disproportionate power in state legislatures. If nothing else, it should serve as a spur to the G.O.P. to work much harder in the big industrial cities...
Perhaps as one concession to his convalescence, he did not travel in his usual speedy Citroen limousine; instead, he decided on a two-car diesel train, which could move him in greater comfort to the rural reaches of France's north. At his first scheduled stop, Soissons, a mighty cheer went up as he stepped before the throng at the Hotel de Ville. He knew as well as they that the Picardy farmers had been protesting angrily against low agricultural prices, so he permitted himself a moment of what for him was consider able levity. Apologizing for having canceled...
...have shown that the periodic bovine excursions and their lingering residue occasion some inconvenience and annoyance to them. But the obstruction of traffic for a few minutes, the presence of manure on the highway and the occasional tracking of it into buildings are not inconveniences serious enough in a rural community to call for the restraining power of a court...