Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prairie Populists. The biggest factor in Humphrey's re-emergence is his unusually close personal rapport with L.B.J. Humphrey, 54, and Johnson, 57, are a pair of old prairie Populists with a common rural background, the instincts of teachers and a shared, lifelong devotion to the New Deal. When they arrived in the Senate on the same day in 1949, Humphrey was generally regarded as a brash young radical, a "black knight," as he puts it, intent on tilting against the senatorial establishment ruled by Democrat Richard Russell and Republican Robert Taft...
...effective film can be when teachers can integrate it naturally into their instruction, E.B.F. and Bell & Howell Co. have sent $650,600 worth of films and new, automatic-threading sound projectors to schools in wealthy Shaker Heights, Ohio, a slum area of Washington, D.C., suburban Daly City, Calif., and rural Terrell, Texas. Researchers from Ohio State University are evaluating the three-to four-year experiment under a grant from the U.S. Office of Education. Although the researchers' verdicts are months away, teachers and students already consider Project Discovery a smash success...
Since Goldwater's defeat, the leaders of the Republica Party have been Congressmen, mostly from rural areas, Brooke explained. These men, he suggested, are not in touch with the modern problems of cities and urban development...
Parry's life will change in vital respect next year. For the first time since 1960, when he went to the University of Wales as principal of University College in Swansea, he will be living in the city. Parry is especially fond of the rural life--his favorite non-academic pastimes are sailing, fishing, and bird-watching--and he admits that "the saddest thing about leaving Wales was losing that salmon stream that flowed by my doorstep." He will, however, retain his house in Harvard, Mass., about 30 miles west of Cambridge, and continue to spend vacations, summers, and some...
Aside from his preference for rural living, Parry is almost euphoric about his return to Harvard. He describes the Harvard community as "very pleasant, perhaps the greatest concentration of interesting people anywhere in the universe." Parry finds only one major deficiency in the Harvard educational process--he thinks that Harvard students, particularly freshmen and sophomores in his course, History 174, "do not express themselves clearly or briefly enough." American secondary schools and colleges, he explained, do not give their students enough practice, drill, and criticism in expository writing...