Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...southern Mexico. Its highlands border on Guatemala to the east; to the west are the steamy lowlands and the famous Aztec ruins. The Harvard field station in San Cristobal (which Mexico on $5 a Day calls the least "civilized" of the major Mexican cities) is in a lush valley almost eight thousand feet high...
Working in groups of up to twelve, the Rondónists gave medical help and teaching assistance, provided engineering expertise, formed cooperatives to make bricks and build roads. In 38 communities in the Jequitinhonha valley, the teams taught 52 hygiene courses, helped construct 300 septic tanks, pulled 30,000 teeth and administered vaccine shots to 150,000 persons. At an abandoned road-construction camp in north-central Brazil, one crew even started a town called Vila Rondón that now boasts a new school and other municipal services for 5,000 people...
...give to Israel as a luxury or fulfillment of its need, but as something at least as necessary for his people as for the Israelis. It's not a present for him to give to us. It's something that his children, the children in the Nile valley, need as much...
...book. It is a little frightening. (One imagines LBJ at the first meeting of his Cabinet saying, "Now there's one little item I'd like to bring up. It's a project that's been on my mind for some time. I've called it the Tennessee Valley Authority...
...only picket line formed was for a social, not a religious protest; it consisted of some 80 Mexican-Americans, who were angered at the sudden dismissal of a popular minister who had been assigned by the Texas Council to work for rural self-determination in the Rio Grande Valley. The protesters were quickly assured that the conference would work "aggressive ly, creatively and risk its very life" on be half of the workers...