Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cases can be medically explained by mongolism, birth injury, infection in infancy, German measles early in gestation, the Rh factor, lead poisoning, or uncommon defects in the body's enzyme chemistry. Where no such factors can be detected, retardation is commonest, said Kennedy, in urban and rural slums, in places where women get little or no doctoring during pregnancy. And there is much retardation among these mothers' abnormally high proportion of premature babies. Children's minds also seem to wither under conditions of severe neglect, said the President, in an atmosphere of hopelessness, where there...
...peasantry, the book traces the slaughter back to 1948, when 18 years of sporadic fighting between the bitterly antagonistic Liberal and Conservative parties was climaxed by the murder of Liberal Leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán. "His voice," says Guzmán, "was the cry of the rural people, who upon hearing of his death, remembered his historic slogan...
...masses. A decade before, few would have imagined that workers and farmers would be crying his slogans, waving his banners. But there they were on the eve of the big referendum called to give the nation's yes or no to his sweeping plans for aid to needy rural and city Iranians. Women, who got the vote for the first time in Iran's history, gathered at polling places to shout, "Long live Mohammed Reza Shah for granting us freedom." The nation's poor were equally enthusiastic, flocked to cast their ballots in unprecedented numbers. The Shah...
...steady influx of office buildings into downtown areas and an exodus of city dwellers to the suburbs, where land grows ever more scarce and costly. Outside London, the government may even be compelled to build new towns in the Green Belts, as Britons call the jealously preserved rural areas around their cities...
When he and his wife Kimi are not in their Greenwich Village apartment, they are apt to be in their old frame house in rural Rensselaerville, 28 miles from Albany. "It is just like Japan," says Okada. "The moors, the quiet, unhurried countryside. We even have a waterfall in front...