Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...depended on those farms and ranches for a living." Today, he hastened to add, "our task is to make our cities good places to live, expensive and demanding as we realize that task is going to be. But the price of progress must not be two Americas, one rural and one urban, or one Northern and one Southern, or one Protestant and one Catholic, or one white and one colored...
...thing goes on in other Latin American countries. In Peru, 2,000 government troops have been chasing 1,300 guerrillas through the highlands for six months. In Colombia, Castro's man is Pedro Antonio Marin, 35, a bandit-turned-Communist who leads 100 guerrillas responsible for dozens of rural murders. In Guatemala, Marco Antonio Yon Sosa, 34, a onetime army lieutenant with U.S. training, leads a 150-man band that recently bushwhacked an army patrol, killing two soldiers...
...hard-nosed board members, or between visionary boards and a skeptical public. Generally, the test of his adjudication comes when taxpayers vote on a bond issue; he does not get his full .5% commission unless the issue passes and plans are approved. Working nationwide out of a clapboard rural headquarters in tiny Purdy Station, N.Y., his firm of Engelhardt, Engelhardt and Leggett now proposes some $380 million in school construction a year, compared with $147 million ten years ago. It wins about 95% of the elections on which it is consulted...
...happiness has a more positive aspect-for instance, recreation. In this area, Government is at its helpful best. In a very big way, it manages to work recreation in as part of its agricultural and conservation programs. It is perfectly possible for the rural landowner to get federal cost-sharing funds for building a pond or lake, to have that body of water stocked, free of charge, with fingerlings from federal fish hatcheries, get Government loans for buying boats, clearing camping grounds and building lodges for fishermen. For the use of any of these facilities, the sportsman pays fees...
...National Teacher Corps of 6,000 professional teachers, either alone or in teams, which would provide teaching services in urban and rural school districts with high concentrations of low-income families. (Appropriations for the Teacher Corps for this year were voted down by Congress, but will probably be included in the supplemental appropriations bill of next spring...