Word: benefited
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Capitol Hill. "The essential problem of the poverty program isn't that it's weak, it's that it creates antagonisms," said Kennedy-and such antagonisms are inevitable if the poor are to have a role in shaping and directing the programs created for their benefit. "What came out of the hearings this morning," said Bobby in San Francisco, "was a desire for hope and dignity. You don't achieve this by coming in and telling the poor what is good for them. You must let them run the program, even if they run it badly...
Whatever the merit of this objective, their plan for achieving it is internally ridiculous. If the Republicans do nominate Percy--and Levinson and Miss Kearns concede neither Nixon nor Romney would be a meaningful improvement on the incumbent--then who is to say a third party would benefit him? Is it not equally logical that the existence of such a party would split the anti-war vote in two and deprive the Republicans of their chance to beat LBJ? Certainly Levinson and Miss Kearns are not the only opponents of the war who would prefer to see a moderate Republican...
...prize is given every two years to the Faculty member who has made "the most valuable contribution to science or in any way for the benefit of mankind...
...drivers and unemployed factory hands than the glamorous man from U.N.C.L.E. William Fulbright can't compete with him for the attention of middle class clerks and housewives. He is very much aware of the possibilities created by his star status, and he has chosen to utilize them for the benefit of the anti-war cause. "Everyone doesn't have the podium I have to speak from," he says. "My audiences may come out of sheer curiosity, but they are courteous and they stay to listen...
...Rostropovich gave a benefit concert Monday evening for the Harvard Summer School and the Cambridge Summer School and the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra. The bow has great sentimental value...