Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blitz all but completed, Johnson's challenge next year will be to preserve all he can of his Democratic congressional majority. O'Brien will have a critical part in that effort, too, both as campaign strategist and patronage dispenser, with 35,000 appointive postmasterships and 33,000 rural letter-carrier jobs at his disposal...
...lights in the bars on Tu Do Street in downtown Saigon gleam through the moist monsoon night until the capital's 11 p.m. curfew. But a scant ten miles away on Saigon's rural edges, the huts grow dark with the dusk. Lights are as likely to attract a Viet Cong bullet as a mosquito. Their backs to the glow from the city, South Vietnamese troops and their U.S. advisers settle back for a long night of watching-and, above all, listening. For the perimeter surrounding the 400 square miles of Gia Dinh province, which includes Saigon...
...Prime Minister John Diefenbaker. Yet the north woods are full of politicians who have learned to rue the day they counted Diefenbaker out. No sooner did Pearson drop his hints than the old Conservative war horse made a surprisingly successful five-day tour of Quebec's rural eastern outbacks, pumping hands, signing autographs, trying out his fractured French, touring small stores and factories. Just before the last election, Diefenbaker was so unpopular in Quebec that there was real question whether he would be safe on a campaign swing through French Canada. But tempers cool, and now 1,200 citizens...
Finally, for Mexico's rural population, 50% of the country's 41 million people, there was a promise of a new deal: 90% of this year's $1.2 billion in government public investment would be poured into provinces outside Mexico City. The purpose of the rural new deal is to bridge the gap between the two Mexicos-the cities, where average annual income is $630, and farms, where earnings still hardly exceed...
...holdouts are concentrated in the rural black-belt sections of Louisiana, where only a fourth of the state's districts have qualified, and in North Carolina, South Carolina and Mississippi, where roughly a third have complied. Mississippi's Amite County, for example, is 60% Negro. The residents there spurned more than $50,000 in federal cash, voted to raise their school tax to offset the deficit. "The Nigras," insists School Board Attorney J. D. Gordon Sr., "are well satisfied with their schools." Across town, a member of the leaderless Negro community, Baptist Minister M. D. Smith, agrees: "Everyone...