Word: rural
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pickup truck was once the mainstay of rural America. It was used for everything from hauling feed and machinery to taking the family to church on Sunday. Americans are still piling into the small trucks, but now their destinations are likely to be the beaches, mountains or woods. And their trucks have many of the comforts of home -beds, toilet and kitchen facilities, all tucked into a piggyback camper behind the cab. Last week, as the camping season began in earnest, a record number of those recreational trucks took to the roads...
...they are forced to learn English from scratch in the first grade, and the frequent result is that they become not bilingual but nearly nonlingual. In Texas, 40% of Chicanos are considered functionally illiterate. In Los Angeles, only an estimated 25% can speak English fluently. Chicano children in some rural areas are still punished for speaking Spanish in school. Only this year, Chicano students at Bowie High School in El Paso?in a predominantly Mexican-American section ?managed to get a rule abolished that forbade the speaking of Spanish on the school grounds...
...line, one must mention Les Carabiniers, a film that uses moral imbeciles in just the same way to attack war. Its events are as senseless and brutal; its plot as much as skeleton device that barely holds the film together (the characters' journey through alien rural setting becomes very boring); its characters as much figures for the camera to follow, rather than sensibilities whose interaction with a setting must be described. The lack of personal development makes Les Carabiniers as disjointed and difficult as Weekend. But the broadness of Weekend's subject is cause for alarm. Weekend shows the impossibility...
...bordello business currently seems to be booming. According to the Los Angeles Times, "prostitution is one of the biggest industries in rural Nevada." State officials are appropriately heavy-lidded as long as appropriate taxes are paid. "I can't tell you anything about prostitution in Nevada," Attorney General Harvey Dickerson told Reporter Charles Hillinger. "I personally don't interfere with it where it exists." One of the "wheres" is Lida Junction on Highway 95, about midway between Reno and Las Vegas. Lida Junction cannot be found on most road maps; it consists of an airstrip and a house...
...made similar findings. Says Robert Pansard, a French safety official who participated in the WHO study: "Although women are perhaps more emotional, they do not possess the drive for power which often becomes aggressiveness in male drivers." They also do not drive as much at night or on dangerous rural roads...