Word: appalachia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would have hooted. Her first choice was journalism but, bored with that, she switched to premed. After internship, Dr. Smith became bored again, this time at the prospect of "tending to well babies and anxious mothers," so she worked for two years at a miners' hospital in depressed Appalachia. When that closed, Dr. Smith went to a Catholic women's organization, the Grail, and volunteered for overseas mission work. Now she has no time to be bored. In 3½ years her Minh Quy hospital has admitted 12,000 different patients, and no one has counted the outpatients...
...most altruistic, there are the Peace Corps and the 14 domestic service programs. "Here is a real, positive outlet," says Gibbs Kinderman, 23, who with his wife Kathy, 24, daughter of Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., directs a poverty program in Appalachia. Laurance Rockefeller Jr., 22, great-grandson of John D., obliquely justifies his work as a $22.50-a-week VISTA volunteer in Harlem: "Beyond affluence, what?" Answers Co-Worker Tweed...
...Republicans? Yes, Virginia, there is a Republican Party. The G.O.P. picked up two House seats, one in the Ninth District (Appalachia), and one in the Eighth, Howard W. Smith's old district, and probably could have taken another in the Third District (Richmond and surrounding counties) had they run a candidate against the incumbent Democrat this fall. Nevertheless the Republicans face serious problems. They have not been able to build up an effective statewide organizations; local offices have largely been left to the Democratic Party in return for the late Sen. Harry Byrd's "golden silence"--his refusal to support...
...varies from kregion to region, living at roughly the same level as the people they are helping, some 3,500 VISTAS are deployed from the Everglades to the Yukon, one-third working on Indian reservations and in migrant labor camps, the rest scattered from Harlem to the hollows of Appalachia...
...first stage of the program, participants will work on wide-ranging service projects in Appalachia, urban housing developments, on Indian reservations, or on an independent project of a student's own choice...