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...money from the NEA is a challenge grant based on the old help-someone-to-help-himself principle. For the next two years, each time the Fogg raises three bucks, Washington will kick in an extra dollar...
...selling newspapers, Ather ton earned a master's degree in history in 1947. When he joined the foreign service, he had an eye on a career in Eu rope. After a stint in West Germany, he was transferred to State's Near Eastern and South Asian bureau-NEA in Foggy Bottom shorthand-and given assignments in Damascus and the Syrian city of Aleppo in the turbulent 1950s. While based in Syria, Atherton defied an unwritten State Department rule by taking a vacation in Israel, on the theory that it would help him understand both sides of the Middle...
Reassigned to Washington in 1965, Atherton rose steadily, from desk officer to director for Israel and Arab-Israel Affairs, Deputy Assistant Secretary for NEA under Joseph J. Sisco and finally, in 1974, Assistant Secretary. A workaholic, he spends at least twelve hours a day six days a week and half of Sunday in his office...
...adequate federal funding for special education programs, in fact, is a primary concern of most states, and the National Education Association as well. "The act has wonderful goals, which we fully support, but the money isn't there to do the job and do it right," says NEA Official John Sullivan. While the start-up costs of the program have been estimated at $4 billion to $5 billion, funds authorized by Congress total only $387 million for the current school year and $775 million for the 1978-79 year. The states or local school districts, most of them already...
...Thus there is no way of knowing for sure which syndicate is largest, though most insiders would probably not dispute this rough ranking: 1) King Features (Blondie, Beetle Bailey, "Hints from Heloise"); 2) Field Newspaper Syndicate (Dennis the Menace, "Herblock," "Ann Landers"); 3) United Feature (Jack Anderson, Peanuts); 4) NEA (Alley Oop, Bugs Bunny); 5) Chicago Tribune-New York News (Dick Tracy, Li'l Abner, Brenda Starr). After that, the field becomes blurred...