Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government says that the blacks are divided. They claim that the urban blacks are at odds with the rural blacks and that you are strongly divided along tribal lines...
...town clerk was, in fact, typical of New Hampshiremen to precisely the extent that David Rockefeller is a typical New Yorker. But he knew what was required, and he gave a good, understated interpretation of his role as an upright rural citizen somewhat bewildered by the attention that he and his state were getting. The network's No. 2 talker did the show, and congratulated himself for extracting a snappy interview from the town clerk...
...concrete terms, the weekend vote -held in 67 Florida counties, from the rural panhandle to the posh Gold Coast-was a meaningless preliminary to an equally meaningless straw vote that will be held in mid-November to sample presidential preference. None of the rivals will collect a single vote good for the 1980 nomination; the March primary will determine that. Yet the practical irrelevance of the exercise did not keep the forces of President Carter or Senator Edward Kennedy from spending extravagantly. "Florida for Kennedy" will have laid out $175,000, Carter $250,000. What they hoped...
...university then proposed splitting the library into two parts-a Harvard research collection and a museum and tourist center elsewhere. Meanwhile, UMass offered the scenic harbor site. One drawback: it had once been used as a garbage dump. There was talk as well of more rural settings. But Widow Jacqueline argued that Jack was a man of the city, not the country, and that the library should be near the sea, which he loved. Finally, Ted Kennedy announced to a meeting of the library's board: "If Jackie wants her husband's presidential library in Dorchester, it will...
...would be no easy job; he perpetrated an incredible number of myths about himself. He often boasted that he had never attended school for a single day. Untrue. He had at least three years of formal education as a child-a stint that was not unusually short in the rural Ohio and Michigan of his youth. As a budding inventor, he also attended classes in chemistry at New York City's Cooper Union after realizing that his self-taught knowledge of that science was inadequate...