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Funds provided under the Mutual Security Act within the discretion of the President and the Secretary of State are the only immediately available source of finances, the report said. It urged that Congress authorize the Peace Corps to receive contributions from "businesses, unions, civic organizations, and the public at large," and pointed out that foreign currency accumulated by the sale of American food surpluses might be used to pay host country expenses...
...five years ago Vellucci proposed to make Harvard a separate city in itself, "like the Vatican." To him, this would only have legitimized the status quo. He even suggested an exchange of ambassadors between city and university. And, "That's how Whitlock and Steele (Assistants to the President for Civic Affairs) came," he proudly asserts...
...before the war, he had five kids and was driving a truck for the Watertown Arsenal. He polled 1,000 votes. Netting 2,000 in his second attempt, he finally triumphed in 1952 with 3,000 votes, to become "a thorn in the side of the entire CCA (Cambridge Civic Association). Everything I said or did, I was opposed by the CCA bloc. Then, in the campaign for re-election, I ran way ahead of all competitors--Harvard professors, M.I.T. professors, and veteran politicians" Immediately after his first election, he "raised the cry for better schools" and "demanded that they...
...Laurel's Oak Park High School, Leontyne seemed to specialize in everything. She was a high school cheerleader ("There would be Leontyne at half time," says Kate Price, "walking around the field on her hands") and a soloist on virtually every one of the Negro community's civic and church programs. She also appeared at funerals, until one group of mourners was so overcome by her expressive performance that she was asked to stop singing. She did but vowed angrily: "That's the last funeral I'll ever...
...play is Curtmantle, about Henry II and Archbishop Thomas Becket. a theme previously treated by T.S. Eliot and Jean Anouilh. With Anouilh's Becket still running in New York and soon to open in London, Fry tactfully avoided competition, opened his play in an odd setting: the new civic theater at Tilburg, in The Netherlands, where he hoped for a quiet tryout. The fact that the play was given in Dutch would help him, thought Fry. to concentrate less on language than on structure, always his weakness. Hardly a sneak preview, Curtmantle* opened to an audience of 900 (including...