Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...episode of the comic strip "Doonesbury" that depicts a couple in bed together was dropped yesterday from several major newspapers, including The Boston Globe...
...strip, which appears in today's Crimson, shows the characters Joanie Caucus and Rick Redfern in bed, as one episode in the story of Joanie's growing interest in the star investigative reporter...
There ought to be additional openness in Government. Strip away secrecy. Have a greater respect for personal privacy...
...land now lies largely untilled. The forests are both abused and neglected. The hillsides are scarred beyond repair by strip mining that mostly profits absentee millionaires. As for the 780,000 people there, by the early '60s Appalachia contained nearly a quarter of a million coal miners in variously advanced stages of ruined health. According to Caudill's rough estimate, a fifth of them could write no more than their names. In Caudill's grim image, southern Appalachia had become a sprawling welfare reservation of kept peoples, waiting in shanties and mobile homes, beside polluted streams...
Defiant Dilemma. In fact, he offers no answers to this defiant dilemma. But he regards Appalachia as a microcosm of America. Unless deterioration can be stopped here, we will have proved ourselves an ungoverning and ungovernable people. If greed-and-need continues to dictate, Caudill predicts, strip mines will next "demolish the West as a viable ecosystem...