Word: money
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...money was used to counsel welfare-rights organizations, to prepare research for neighborhood legal-aid centers and to initiate court action on behalf of the poor. As it happens, much of the litigation subsidized by the Federal Government has been used to bring successful suits against local, state and federal authorities for slipshod and unconstitutional handling of poverty and welfare programs...
Despite its impressive accomplishments and imposing title, the center has surprisingly modest resources. Besides the OEO grant, it gets some money from foundations-used mostly to pay staggering travel expenses. It is housed in a refurbished Columbia University apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side, and its full-time professional staff is composed of only eight young lawyers (average age 28). All could be getting good salaries on Wall Street, but they agree with Director Albert when he says: "I wanted to do something relevant." Albert, who earns $17,000 a year, went to Yale Law School, clerked...
...Court Fortas became involved with Louis Wolfson, a corporate adventurer who is serving a one-year sentence for selling unregistered stock. Three months after taking his oath, says LIFE, Fortas received $20,000 from the Wolfson Family Foundation, ostensibly for advising the foundation on philanthropic affairs. Fortas returned the money after Wolfson was indicted on criminal charges; the reason given by Fortas' former law partner was that the Justice had been too busy with court affairs to do anything for the foundation...
...week, making one of his rural visits, he failed to survive the 26th. Traveling by helicopter with a pilot and military aide, he landed on a basketball court in the Andean village of Arque. He dedicated a school honoring John F. Kennedy and a new public health dispensary, presented money for a town water-supply system and paused briefly for refreshments and handshaking. Then, with a final wave, he departed for the village of Tacopaya, 25 miles away. Rising to clear the high hills around Arque, the helicopter struck telephone and telegraph cables, bounced back and crashed into...
...first stages for the Saturn 5, NASA's journeyman booster for manned flight, will roll off assembly lines a year from June. By 1972 at the latest, all of them will be used up. Although NASA has been given funds for three additional Saturn 5s, the money will be just enough to ward off protracted delays in manufacture. Says Apollo Spacecraft Program Manager George Low: "This summer is our last chance to establish a new goal with continuity...