Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...capital. They also made two long trips into the interior, one to Chiang Mai, where Thailand borders on Burma, a second to Udorn near the Laos frontier, where one of the U.S. airbases is located. In both areas the government, with U.S. cooperation, is carrying out extensive rural rehabilitation and development programs...
...society and an age that demand ever higher skills and more sophisticated minds, the poor, simply by standing still, are caught up in a kind of geometric regression. For the most part, they are those whom the welfare state never brushed, a residual minority tucked away in rural backwaters and urban ghettos: the Cumberland's dirt farmer, the Mississippi cotton chopper, the migrant farm worker in California's Imperial Valley, the illiterate Harlem dishwasher. They exist, as Michael Harrington wrote in The Other America, "beyond history, beyond progress, sunk in a paralyzing, maiming routine...
...population, the U.S. ranks 15th. This low rating for the world's richest country is partly due to the fact that U.S. doctors tend to cluster in urban areas, where there are better hospital facilities and more opportunity for consultation, leaving a lethal shortage in remote and rural areas. Another reason is that the poor, the Negroes and other minority groups do not get the medical care available to most of the population...
...medicine is now recognizing that the general practitioner fills a need that is not being met. He tends to serve in rural areas, and to be the mainstay of the poor and the slum dweller, who cannot afford the several specialists many families now have for their varied ills. Most of all, the family doctor, available in greater numbers, would help restore the oldtime warmth to the doctor-patient relationship...
Rusk, in this respect, resembles his Southern predecessor, John C. Calhoun, who believed that political affairs were "subject to laws as fixed as matter itself." Like Calhoun, Rusk grew up in the back country of the rural South yet still adopted the ways of a Southern gentleman...