Word: ruralization
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...Queen Elizabeth, out for a rural walk with George and the Princesses near Balmoral, crossed a brook in Glen Cairn, lost her footing and fell. Injuries: "Minor cuts & bruises" on the left leg. The doctor ordered rest for two or three days...
...Sparkman, House Majority Whip, missed a clear majority over four opponents by a whisker (less than 300 votes), in a contest to fill the Senate seat of the late John H. Bankhead. In the runoff, Sparkman faces conservative James A. Simpson, Birmingham corporation lawyer, who ran second in both rural and city districts...
...Sounds. But there had been a change in the picturesque land. In old Quebec Province, the conservative, independent, devoutly Catholic habitant had developed his own culture on his farms. Its cornerstones were the church and the big family, an economic necessity in the rural economy...
Last week, rural Georgia was comfortable again. After nearly four years of wearing the laundered government of chubby Governor Ellis Arnall (who cannot succeed himself under state law), she had gone back to his skinny, wild-eyed predecessor, 61-year-old ex-Governor Eugene Talmadge. Talmadge's once discarded political union suit still smelled of demagoguery, Klan support and white supremacy. But it felt easy in the seat...
Last Bulwark. Conservative Argentine society was shaken right down to its stirrups when Peron moved in on the Socie-dad Rural, organization and stronghold of the landed aristocracy. Peron remembered the boos he got (in absentia) last year at the Sociedad's famed cattle show. At this year's, he was determined to get the cheers. A first, necessary step was a new and pro-Peron executive committee. Last week, the old executive committee obligingly resigned...