Word: appalachia
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...should enact the long-awaited strip-mining bill to help increase coal production from the present 600 million tons per year to 1 billion tons. The growth would occur, as the bill now stands, in regions where the land can be reclaimed after surface mining: mainly the Midwest and Appalachia. Reclaiming the arid stretches of the West would be more difficult. In the meantime, underground mining, which is the only way to extract most of the nation's 1.3 trillion tons of coal, should be expanded by using advanced technology: machines that continuously bore or shave seams and greatly...
...reserves of the West, where low-sulfur coal lies close to the surface. But with 1,000 chewed-up acres being added each week to the existing 2.5 million acres of strip-mined land, Congress is finally acting to make sure that coal producers do not create another ravaged Appalachia...
John D. Rockefeller IV, 37. To his critics in West Virginia, Native New Yorker "Jay" Rockefeller is a suspect Democrat from a Republican family-and a carpetbagger to boot. Still, two years after arriving in Appalachia as a poverty worker, the nephew of Nelson Rockefeller and grandson of John D. Jr. easily won a seat in the state house of delegates, in 1968 was elected West Virginia's secretary of state. Handsome, rich, well educated (Exeter, Harvard, Yale) and well wed (his father-in-law is G.O.P. Senator Charles Percy), Rockefeller lost his bid for governorship...
...fragile appearance is deceptive; Sloane plays championship squash and jogs two miles every morning before taking up his work as mayor of Louisville. Son of a Manhattan broker, Sloane is a graduate of Case Western Reserve Medical School who worked with the U.S. Public Health Service in Appalachia. In Louisville he has encouraged hundreds of volunteers for city programs and has established a health center in a poor black area. Using his clinic as a base, he won a resounding victory last November over a popular former Louisville chief of police...
...shop. We were worried about what all these toys suggested about the intelligence of mountain people and the amount of time they seemed to have to kill. My friend even found the advertising here "sordid." And together we wondered just who to think was being exploited, poor people of Appalachia being used by some carpetbagger capitalist, or gullible Yankees whose fleecing we should applaud...