Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Governor's chair (twelve under ''Soapy" Williams, two under Swainson). Michigan's economy went to pot, largely as a result of political schizophrenia. On one side were the Democrats, monolithically supported by the United Auto Workers and other unions. On the other side was the rural-dominated state legislature, a kind of feudal barony perpetuated by malapportionment and chartered by an antiquated state constitution. Over the years, the bickering and battling between the two sides put Michigan $85.6 million into debt. Auto companies began building new assembly plants in other states; the population explosion...
...only one in town. Self-styled as independent, it became Republican and conservative soon after its founder, Democratic Senator Gilbert Hitchcock, died in 1934. It is solidly established in a conservative Republican state. It gives Nebraskans what they want: a tidy-looking paper heavy on rural affairs and light on international affairs, concise and easily digested frontpage stories that almost never ask the reader to turn to an inside page. Its seven morning and five afternoon editions, with a combined circulation of 254,962 (270,189 on Sunday), returned a handsome profit last year of $1,700,000 after taxes...
Four student organizations were joint sponsors of the effort to raise money for SNCC, which is engaged in running voter registration and community education schools in rural areas of the South. The sponsoring groups were the National Student Association, the Northern Student Movement, Students for a Democratic Society, and the Campus Division of Americans for Democratic Action...
...case is in Illinois, where seven-term Democrat Peter F. Mack Jr. and Freshman Republican Representative Paul Findley were squeezed into a new downstate district by a G.O.P. legislature that clearly hoped to sack Mack. An unpredictable liberal (he voted against foreign aid this year), Mack was given twelve rural Republican counties. Findley, a weekly newspaper publisher and a Goldwater conservative, seems ahead. But Mack is durable: when another G.O.P. legislature gerrymandered his district a decade ago he won anyway. In West Virginia, eight-term Democrat Cleveland M. Bailey, 76, has a new district that gives...
...laying the cornerstone for a new $100,000 social-welfare center. The country's welfare, social and otherwise, is still heavily at the mercy of the Communists, who demonstrated the fact by throwing a grenade into the independence-day crowds, killing six. But despite serious remaining difficulties, the rural populace is showing greater resistance to enemy guerrillas, who are now losing three weapons for every four they capture; only last year, the ratio was one to two. U.S. advisers are confident that the Viet Cong now have virtually no hope of achieving their goal of setting up a separate...