Word: rural
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...states, many suburban and rural conservatives, certain Nixon people in any other year, are choosing Wallace in 1968. In New York, Wallace thus seems to hurt both parties about equally. Nixon believes that this holds true for the country at large; the Wallace vote, in his view, comes down to a "wash" for both parties. No one likes to contemplate what would happen if Wallace won enough states on his own to deny either of the other candidates a clear majority of 270 votes in the Electoral College. Though this is still highly unlikely, Wallace nonetheless constitutes a very real...
...prospects had seldom seemed more promising than when Belaúnde took over the presidency in 1963. He plunged into his tasks vowing to do "twelve years' work in six." Eager to aid Peru's impoverished peasants, he launched a whirlwind campaign to build houses, schools, rural airports and roads. The symbol of his dreams for Peru was a new highway cutting into the trans-Andean forests, each mile of roadway completed opening up 3,500 acres of land...
Senator McGovern is wind-blown all right. Across the autumn-gold corn stalks of a roadside field in this rural county, a billboard proclaims: "McGOVERN--A COURAGEOUS PRAIRIE STATESMAN." And there is McGovern, hair tousled, walking into the wind...
This summer, SRRP undertook a more direct assault at the program. Workers in the Black Belt counties spent all day, every day, travelling through the rural "niggertowns" finding people who had been denied the Food Stamps and welfare they were entitled to, by discriminatory white officials. Constantly aware that their work had to continue beyond the summer that the Northern students working for SRRP could spend in Alabama, SRRP tried to build local welfare rights organizations to carry on the fight against the white officials...
...welfare rights is obviously a stop-gap approach, and SRRP director Don Jelinek was trying for a frontal attack on the welfare and food systems. His aim was to change programs like Commodities and Food Stamps into realistic plans based on the rural families' needs, and not on the needs of the Agriculture Department...