Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your Essay has left me a broken man. I am a 45-year-old bachelor. I write books for a living, reside in a cozy cabin near a rural trout stream, have a wonderful platonic relationship with a divorcee who lives down the road, and enjoy occasional outside dates. For years, I have believed that I was enjoying a state of contentment that is rare on this earth-and that I was presenting an enviable public image. Now, with lightning suddenness, I learn that I am nothing but a psychopath and an object of public pity. Melancholy has gripped...
...yells poverty, the bill would also provide for the upgrading of schools and such amenities as more frequent garbage collection. Though the Senate cut $125 million from Johnson's request, it still provided $300 million more (for a total of $537 million) than the House, where a revived rural Republican-Southern Democratic coalition is the main roadblock to greater aid for the cities...
Almost certainly not. Already 70% of America's population lives on 1.3% of its land. A tide of unskilled rural migrants floods the crowded ghettos, choking the cities' power to provide jobs, housing, education, transportation, police protection, or even breathable air. Another 100 million souls will join the population by the year 2000, leading the Administration to see an impending social holocaust so dire that, as Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman put it, it will make "last summer a pink tea party compared with what's ahead...
...telling piece of evidence is the flight of more than 1,000,000 South Vietnamese to the cities in the past year. Whatever their reasons-war-weariness, the lure of jobs or plain fear of the guerrillas-their exodus has markedly reduced the Viet Cong's rural base...
...India and China are historic rivals and enemies, but Prince Sihanouk of Cambodia was one of China's few remaining friends in Asia-until last week. When the Chinese accused him of "imperialism, revisionism and reaction," Sihanouk, who has lately been troubled by smatterings of Communist insurgency in rural areas, reacted quickly. He recalled his ambassador from Peking, fired two pro-Chinese ministers from his Cabinet and closed down all of Pnompenh's privately owned newspapers (one of which had printed the offending Chinese telegram). Sihanouk warned that he would break relations with Peking entirely "if China continues...