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...meaningful evaluation" of it. Ohio Republican William Ayres chided the Administration for keeping Shriver as head of both the domestic Office of Economic Opportunity and the foreign Peace Corps. Said Ayres: "We are now asked to double the appropriation and still retain a half-time director." Pennsylvania Democrat John Dent liked the program's aims but charged both Republican and Democratic Governors with using the program for political purposes-"both in the same poker game, and both have the same marked deck." New Jersey Republican Peter Frelinghuysen taunted Democrats about difficulties at some OEO centers (TIME, July 16). "Many...
...Outta My Face." Murray's defense was that the sort of show that would have pleased the critics and Congressmen would have made no dent on the "out-of-school, out-of-work, out-of-luck kids" that the poverty program was all about. "You can't play a sonata or a fugue and hope to reach kids when a majority of them can't even read or add properly. How many critics and politicians bothered to check with our special audience to find their reaction?" Murray had a rebuttal, too, for those who complained that...
...Furniture. Two-thirds of these sales are earned by Samsonite's familiar, streamlined luggage, which is recognized, used and often inadvertently exchanged by travelers around the world. Its dent-proof magnesium frame, flush snap locks, and a plastic skin that can withstand everything from the -50° F, cold in an airliner's cargo compartment to the rough treatment of baggage handlers, have lifted luggage sales almost beyond Samsonite's capacity. The company has placed its 13-acre Denver luggage plant on a seven-day, round-the-clock schedule, is actively scouting sites for three additional plants...
...Victory in Sight" focuses on the last bloody chapter of the war: the final European offensive and Allied victories in the Pacific. Presi dent Roosevelt is inaugurated a fourth time; his children James and Anna appe< in a special sequence...
...treasury. Last week, in a far more serious affair, Switzerland was shaken by one of the worst scandals in the annals of Swiss banking. 'The government suspended from office the man most directly re sponsible for policing the country's banking integrity: Max Hommel, presi dent of the Swiss Banking Commission...