Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...growing their own, usually in window boxes, rather than paying the high price of "commercial" marijuana ($10 to $15 for a "lid" from which some 40 cigarettes can be rolled). It was only a matter of time before some enterprising head decided to combine the hippie love of things rural with the prospect of easy cash. Early this summer, John H. ("Ian") Fralich, 18, a cape-draped hippie guru in Washington, B.C., leased a wooded, 35-acre farm in Virginia's rolling hunt country and seeded one acre in marijuana-enough plants to produce a $100,000 harvest...
...then, the country has made solid economic progress. Per capita income has grown 4% annually, until today it stands at $313 -one of Asia's highest. Every year 18% of the national product has been plowed back into investments, much of it in the villages in an impressive rural-development program headed by the Tunku's friend, Deputy Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak...
Nearly 200 such trailers, equipped with movie projectors, record players, school benches, and a cot and stove for the roving teacher's comfort, are roaming Mexico's rural areas...
...basic Western sympathies. And he obviously has an admirer in Lyndon Johnson. "When I visited Iran just five years ago," the President noted last week at a White House dinner for his guest, "Iran's land reform program had barely begun. Today, 50% of Iran's rural families farm their own land. Some 7,000 rural cooperatives have been established and 800 extension corpsmen are helping farmers acquire new skills." It is no accident that Iran's economy is the strongest in the Middle East. And no one is prouder of his country's achievements than...
Defiance is also widespread in rural Bible belt areas of the Midwest. One sur vey, for example, indicates that more than half of the school districts in In diana observe periods of prayer and one-third continue Bible reading. When some parents of children in a Jennison, Mich., school objected to classroom prayer, the school board rejected their complaints. In the Southwest, one count shows that Bible readings were held in 79.9% of the Texas secondary schools, prayers were said in 89.5%. In the East, where 68% of the schools had Bible reading and prayer in 1962, most have abandoned...