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Washington's anti-poverty programs are all coordinated through the United Planning Organization, a nebulous political entity which is difficult to find physically and well-nigh impossible to reach by telephone. All of the Federal poverty funds are channeled through UPO to Washington's various anti-poverty agencies. Job interviews for programs such as Head Start and Step-Up are usually handled at UPO offices scattered anonymously over the city. Paychecks come from UPO; and UPO is first to be criticized when unfavorable publicity attaches itself to any of the poverty activities...
...Yale Daily News gave Megan Terry full marks for her humanistic impulses but argued that she had succeeded only too well. "The revue nibbles at both sides," wrote Undergraduate Robert Benard, "deploring well-nigh everything but offering no discernible point of view, and, most important, no implied alternatives. What she has done; really, is to anthologize several cliche comments...
...airbases to the U.S. while moving vigorously, with American help, to counter Communist insurgency in its troubled northeastern provinces. At the other extreme, Indonesia, not long ago-Peking's most belligerent camp follower, has turned on its own Communist Party, ousted it from influence and well-nigh annihilated it. This, in turn, has led to the end of the Indonesian-Malaysian confrontation that for so long kept that part of Asia tense...
Actually, though, there are funny moments, like when Stella Stevens nearly drowns in a puddle. And funny lines, like when the well-nigh-intoxicated Miss Stevens says to Martin, "So you thought I couldn't hold my liquor, couldn...
...Schmidt story was not an easy one to report or to write. The world of quasar astronomy is one of nigh-incredible reaches in time, space and imagination. It involves unheard-of distances, temperatures and energy. It has its own logic and language, and it takes astronomy to the edge of theology, physics to the edge of metaphysics. It raises such questions as whether the universe came into being suddenly, or whether it existed forever-and in that case, what is "forever"? What is eternity? "The subject," says Science Writer Leon Jaroff, "makes the mind boggle, especially when...