Word: ruralization
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...Communists were staggered when returns from rural districts showed votes piling up for opposition candidates. At the last minute local Front bosses had to reshuffle the rural count and ring up huge city majorities to make possible the Government landslide. Bucharest, Rumania's Jersey City, turned in over 425,000 for the Government partymen, 70,000 for the opposition...
Lost: famed Helen Keller's rural Connecticut home, by fire. One wall was left standing. Miss Keller was expected back from abroad shortly before Christmas...
...Pantagraph's present publisher, six-foot Loring "Bud" Merwin, is a fourth generation descendant of old Jesse Fell. Many newsmen consider his prairie daily one of the best-run small papers (circ. 32,000) in the U.S. For its wealthy rural readers, the Pantagraph runs more farm news than Prairie Farmer, backs its "clean and consistent record of internationalism" with full coverage of world affairs. (Adlai Stevenson, another Fell descendant and minority stockholder of the Pantagraph, is a U.S. Alternate Delegate to U.N.) Politically the Pantagraph has never hesitated to shuck its normal Republicanism when a Democrat looked better...
Everybody talked about the teacher shortage, but almost nobody did anything about it. Last week the National Education Association made the shortage at least seem more real by hurling a startling figure: for want of teachers, 61,750 U.S. children (mostly rural) who ought to be in school are staying home this year...
Undulant fever (brucellosis) is caused by bacteria transmitted to human beings by infected cows, goats or pigs, either by contact or in unpasteurized milk or cheese. Hence it is most common in rural areas. Anyone who feels weak, tired, feverish and generally rotten should be suspected of having the disease-but detection is tough. Reason: the symptoms resemble those of many other common diseases, including malaria, tuberculosis, psychoneurosis. Undulant fever seldom kills, but it may keep its victims wretched...