Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than half the world's population will live in crowded cities), but it is nowhere more vivid than in the U.S., which is amid the sometimes painful process of jamming 85% of its population onto 2% of its land-an astounding change for a nation so recently rural. Hand in hand with this transformation has been the extraordinary spread of the auto: the U.S. auto population has tripled to 90 million in 20 years, is now growing eight times faster than the human population. Thus freed from dependence on rail transit lines that were laid for another...
Instead they picked Harold Levander, a relatively unknown St. Paul lawyer who is running for statewide office for the first time. Levander held on to his support among rural conservatives at a long confused convention in late June. But Rolvaag had not yet declared his candidacy and Republicans wasted their convention time attacking Keith's "craven ambition" and "assassination of a friend...
...some ways Levander's campaign has been shrewdly planned. During the D.F.L. primary struggle he made the traditional trips to the outstate boondocks, solidifying his rural strength. That left 85 per cent of his campaign time in September and October for wooing the big city votes in Minneapolis and St. Paul...
...needs. Many state and city officials complain that such badly needed federal programs as the war on poverty and new educational ventures sometimes take too little account of local conditions. Federal specifications for the management of some antipoverty programs, for example, are the same in generally prosperous rural areas as in city ghettos; New York, with the highest number of addicts in the nation, gets no more dollar aid for the war on narcotics than Montana, which has almost no such problem...
...Illinois, the first week's results of a Chicago Sun-Times straw poll in urban, rural and suburban areas gave Chuck Percy a surprisingly large lead-58.5% to 41.5%-over Paul Douglas...