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The eventual answer, however, lies not in palliating deprivation but in enabling the young to escape the self-regenerating cycle that has trapped their parents in poverty. Better medical care for poor children and early educational programs like Head Start, followed through with continuing vocational training, cultural enrichment, and ultimate employment, would grant a meaningful role in the mainstream of American life to all citizens. Such an attack would in the long run prove a sound investment, in lives as well as dollars, for a society with both the conscience and creative resources to hold out for all its people the actuality of the American dream.
*So called throughout the South because, in the folk phrase, "You could shoot a gun through it and not hit anything."
*Victims of hydrocephalus whose skulls fail to drain body fluids and thus swell to disproportionate size. Surgically inserted tubes can relieve the condition.
*Only the Yaqui, who came to the U.S. from Mexico in the 1880s, are not wards of the U.S. Government when they live on reservations, as most Indians still do.