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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems fitting that you should have Robert Kennedy as your cover subject [May 24] one week following your analysis of poverty in America. Senator Kennedy is a man who has not sought to ignore the poor but rather to give them new hope. He has done this through identification with minorities. As the one candidate to be accepted completely by Negroes, he best offers the solution to America's most distressing domestic problems-racial unrest and urban decay...
...TIME'S cover story on poverty [May 17] prompted these thoughts: I believe that if we spent just one-half of what we now allow for Aid for Dependent Children on the building and staffing of good resident institutions-call them orphanages if you must-and set up the legal and social-work procedures needed to get a majority of hard-core poor children into these institutions at an early age, we could make some real progress toward eliminating the evils associated with poverty. Children must develop in something other than a degenerating social and physical environment if they...
...student said that he first tried marijuana because someone in his regular illegal cigarette smoking clique introduced it one week. Virtually all who would smoke cigarettes legally still do so anyway. And pipes are sometimes used to cover the smell of drugs. Incense has been banned by the administration because it can be used for that purpose. And there is a move afoot to get rid of pipes for the same reason...
...Artist Roy Lichtenstein, who painted this week's cover, says that Kennedy is one of the very few real people he has ever portrayed. The 44-year-old artist usually turns out comic-strip-style superheroes with square jaws and their girl friends with superperfect coiffures. What he liked most about Kennedy, he says, was his "lively, upstart quality and pop-heroic proportions as part of a legend...
Award winners will receive grants to cover expenses and an additional $600 honorarium in the Fall...