Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...houses. Luckily for Agnew and Maryland, most of the Democrats were not Mahoney men; for the first time, as a result of the state's court-ordered reapportionment, they represented population patterns rather than geography. Thus the political center of gravity had shifted from Maryland's conservative rural minority to its metropolitan preponderance...
...brick statehouse had no shortage of reformers in either branch of government. Even so, they treated the newly disinherited with due deference. Said Democratic House Leader Thomas Lowe: "I'm what you might call a bucolic reactionary from the Eastern Shore. These urbanites did not run over us rural people. They understood our problems, as we understood theirs...
...ranging from taxation to school construction. They will be able to spend up to $425 on their own; larger sums must be discussed with province chiefs or Saigon. As the next step, 4,487 hamlets (subdivisions of villages) will elect hamlet chiefs-the traditional and revered headmen of Vietnamese rural life...
...Bound Copy. Though Ky's rhetorical questions stole the headlines, he spent most of his time on Guam assessing the progress that was being made in the "other war." He reported that 2,500,000 acres of farm land had been redistributed. In the rural pacification program, he noted that 24 of the 103 South Vietnamese civilians executed by the Viet Cong in the past week were members of revolutionary development teams-a measure of "the uneasiness they cause the Viet Cong...
City planners see Reston as an oddity, an inappropriate regression to rural Americana. A planned community cannot be a model for megalopolis when it deliberately keeps its population density at 13 persons per acre. Wood and trees, they claim, are irrelevant media for the city of the future. And the attempt to preserve large tracts of hillside is unrealistic when the eastern seaboard of this country will be entirely covered with building in the next half century. "The philosophy of Reston is focused too much on the picturesque and the pedestrian," says one planner, "and it ignores the dynamic, rich...