Word: javitses
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HAMILTON COLLEGE (N.Y.) Jacob K. Javits, LL.D., U.S. Senator, New York. Once described by a timely magazine as "non-hirsute and non-Harvard," he is nevertheless a persuasive champion of Republican liberalism. A friend of the arts, he serves on more committees than an associate professor in a small college...
Intemperate Reaction. In voicing such criticism, and in repeating it during a two-day hearing held in Manhattan by Pennsylvania Democrat Joseph Clark's Senate poverty subcommittee, Kennedy was only echoing objections that have been raised frequently in recent years. Even so, as New York's Republican Senator...
Thus, when New York City Welfare Commissioner Mitchell I. Ginsberg emphatically endorsed Kennedy's position by telling the subcommittee that the present welfare system should be "thrown out," Javits retorted angrily: "You'd better not be in too much of a hurry to talk that way, or you...
Planners are hoping for $8 million under the recent Kennedy-Javits amendment to the Economic Opportunity Act; it provides incentives to businesses which set up on-the-job training programs. Even without that money, a small metal-working firm, providing 30 or 40 jobs, has agreed to locate in the...
Nevertheless, the corporations are largely Kennedy's creations, and he will get the lion's share of the credit if the Bedford-Stuyvesant project succeeds. He met with members of the community in February of last year. They told him they had seen a good many politicians drop in and...