Word: nine-month-old
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...would guess," says Anti-Poverty Director Sargent Shriver of his nine-month-old Office of Economic Opportunity, "that no Federal Government program in peacetime has ever gone so far so fast, or ever zeroed in so well." With $793 million allocated and another $1.5 billion requested, the anti-poverty program has indeed gone a long way in a short time; now, by Shriver's count, it directly affects 1,735,000 people.* How well it has zeroed in is a question that is being debated throughout much...
...month, Tenor Saxophonist Ed Summerlin, with sextet and chorus, presented the first performance of a new Liturgy of the Holy Spirit, with words by Poet William Robert Miller. Based vaguely on a Christian service described by the 2nd century theologian Hippolytus, the eclectic 14-part liturgy included jazz anthems in fairly conventional "cool" style, ballad-like congregational hymns reminiscent of Kurt Weill, choral passages as modal as a 14th century Mass. Florida-born Ed Summerlin began writing jazz for use in churches six years ago, when he poured out his grief at the loss of his nine-month-old daughter...
...symbolism could hardly be lost on Bolivians. As command pilot of Bo livia's nine-month-old military junta, Barrientos may fall into a flat spin one day; but in the meantime, he is flying high. His most notable accomplishment is something no other modern Bolivian ruler had ever achieved: control over the country's potentially rich, but notoriously inefficient tin mines...
Crofut, a lanky and engaging native of Cleveland, was trained as a French horn player, and has a music degree from Allegheny College. His wife and nine-month-old daughter are traveling with him on the tour. Bachelor Addiss, a dark and more intense counterpart to Crofut, studied composition at Harvard under Composer Walter Piston, has written one opera and is at work on a second. Born in New York City, he was teaching at Mannes College of Music and editing a music magazine when he decided to strike out with Crofut...
...shock of not having the family doctor at the other end of the telephone was abruptly brought home on the first day of the strike. When Mrs. Vicky Derhousoff put her nine-month-old son Carl to bed in their home at Usherville, he was running a fever. Next morning the fever was higher. Peter Derhousoff tried to phone the doctors in nearby Preeceville, was told that both were on vacation. A nurse at the Preeceville Hospital told him to take the baby to Yorkton, 91 miles away. On the road, says Derhousoff, "I began to realize...