Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nevertheless, the two largest groups of student terrorists are the Communists and the Fidelista MIR (Movement of the Revolutionary Left). Though indistinguishable from the Communists in action, according to Gonzalez, the MIR derives much of its strength from those, especially from rural areas, who do not want to incur the stigma attaching to Communism--"I wouldn't want my mother to hear I was a Communist...
...Washington, Food for Peace officials have coined a name for the project-Alianza para los Niños, meaning Alliance for Children. The food is credited with helping to double Peru's rural school attendance since the program began; school absenteeism in Bolivia has dropped from 38% to 2%, and students now make sure to be on time since latecomers go to the end of the lunch line. Each day in Mexico, more than 1,000,000 schoolchildren receive the donated food. "The lunch is the only reason a lot of parents send their children to school," says Djalma...
...always has. She was sister Eileen in Wonderful Town, and she won a Tony award as Daisy Mae in Broadway's Li'l Abner. Early in her show business experience, she was taught how to go for the green. As a dappled-taffy blonde out of rural Pennsylvania, Tenafly, N.J., and the Juilliard School of Music, she appeared on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts years ago, hoping to win the evening with a long-hair practice number selected from a Juilliard textbook. "If you sing that, you will probably win," Godfrey's musical director told...
...classic myth set up as framework for a contemporary tale. Updike readers will find it a bit of a jolt. One is used to seeing Updike detail the perfectly ordinary life; the marriage that never should have been, or, again and again, minutiae of his boyhood in rural Pennsylvania...
...setting befits William Zantzinger's status as a rural aristocrat. His father, a former member of the Maryland house of delegates and the state planning commission, still lives in the mansion, where he and his wife entertain in convivial country style. William and his attractive wife, Jane, 24, organized the Wicomico Hunt Club, love to halloo after hounds across their fields. William is unlike many a gentleman farmer. His farming success is due not to the efficiency of hired supervisors, but to the long hours of gritty, grubby work he himself does afield. But by last week...