Word: southerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...challenge. "Washington," she says, "is more an opportunity than a place." That is true enough. With all of the capital's social problems, new, civic-minded leading citizens can find plenty of good causes to work for. Though John Kennedy once cracked that Washington is "a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm," it also boasts a gracious, glittering social life...
...more than $20,000. The fact that Mississippi's Senator James Eastland's plantations receive $157,930 a year for not growing cotton - while some of his constituents go hungry - ought to be reproach enough. Ironically, the Agriculture Department is also spending millions to improve big-scale Southern commercial farms, thus driving Negro farm laborers out of jobs and on to Northern welfare rolls. The Government should do far more to help and retrain those laborers - in the South - thus saving more money and needless misery in the North. Critics have suggested that the space program could well...
...most bewildering of all is the current hunger for black cookery. Soul food, Southern Negro cooking that was born in the slave quarters and is based on ingredients that the plantation owner ordinarily would not have on his table, has become a fad in U.S. dining...
...that time was a town of scarcely 15,000 people sporting only four blocks of paved streets, no sewage system, no streetlighting, no radio nor telephones. Liberia's annual budget came to $750,000, and government departments were quartered in shabby, corrugated-metal reproductions of Southern U.S. ante-bellum mansions. An Americo-Liberian elite, descendants of the American slaves who declared Liberia independent in 1847,* was in power, ruling with little regard for the tribal people of the bush, whom they called aborigines. The economy was dominated by the Firestone company, whose rubber plantations stretched deep into the hinterlands...
...guard at Fiat was not quite comfortable with the high-living heir. Early on, too, he suffered a setback. Alfa-Romeo, a rather small, state-owned company that specialized in costlier high-performance cars, made plans for building a southern Italian plant to mass produce medium-priced cars. Agnelli used all his prestige and persuasion to try to block government approval of the Alfa-Romeo expansion, but failed. By 1971, when Alfa-Romeo begins turning out 450,000 cars a year, Fiat will have the novel experience of facing real Italian competition in the medium-priced field...