Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Caouette still represents the solution to the bicultural problem to many in Quebec; he thus remains a valid repository for Quebec allegiance. Although Socred charisma may be waning, especially in the lower St. Lawrence valley, support definitely seems to be growing on the Island of Montreal and in certain rural areas now represented by Liberals. Therefore, though Socred will definitely not gain, it will probably not lose enough to weaken its influence...
...affairs in any sort of order, Washington clearly needs more money. But the city's purse strings are held by Congress-particularly by the House District Committee, which is headed by South Carolina's John McMillan and dominated by rural Southern conservatives...
...Edmonds school district north of Seattle is a once rural area that in ten years of suburban spread has acquired almost 22,000 schoolchildren. With such pressure, its schools might well be awful. But so appealing is its remarkable Maple Park Elementary School that people living outside its area have been known to smuggle in their kids by parking them with legal residents. The lure at Maple Park, first public school of its kind in the Pacific Northwest, is the "ungraded primary"-a new way of organizing grade schools that may soon become standard across...
Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman hopes that the plan will remove a lot of farm land from production, thereby reducing the price-support burden while providing recreational facilities "on these rural lands near the crowded millions in our cities, convenient and easily accessible...
African Leadership. In Kenya, when ex-Mau Mau detainees returned to their villages after rehabilitation courses in British camps, they used their new knowledge of basic economics to take over rural trading posts from the long-hated Asians. Lately, Kenya's Indian merchants have contributed heavily to both big African political parties in hopes of buying protection after Kenya gets uhuru (freedom). Kenya's Nationalist Leader Tom Mboya is one of the few politicians to pledge that his Kenya African National Union will permit no one to be "victimized on grounds of race, color, tribe or religion...