Word: sargent
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...billion antipoverty bill, also faces a House hatchet job. Such Republican critics as Ohio's William Ayres and New York's Charles Goodell want to lop some $600 million to $800 million off the authorization, which will probably come to a vote this week. Angrily, Sargent Shriver threatened to quit as head of the Office of Economic Opportunity if Congress will not give him the funds to do his job. "It would be a delusion to the poor," he said. "I don't think it would be advisable to continue a fraud...
Last week Poverty Director Sargent Shriver dropped in on the James gang to see how the money was being spent. Accompanied by Jesse, he looked in on a highly informal catch-up class for high school dropouts, tuned an ear to an aspiring musical group practicing on bongos and guitars, watched a workout in the boxing ring, inspected the carpentry shop where Rebels were hard at work sharpening their skills for union apprenticeship exams, and came away impressed. "This is of the people and for the people," Shriver said. "I believe we should have thousands of groups like it, where...
Died. Sir Malcolm Sargent, 72, Britain's most popular orchestra conductor; of cancer; in London. Known equally as a London bon vivant and baton master, Sargent was lionized in British music circles for four decades. Critics respected the 19th century grandeur that characterized all his work and cheered especially the fioriture he summoned in such choral classics as Handel's Messiah. To audiences, he was "Flash Harry," the impeccably groomed courtier of the orchestra stage, raconteur, and international socialite. His own favorite appearances were at cavernous Royal Albert Hall's immensely popular "prom" annuals, where...
...poverty program seemed more vulnerable than ever, although Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz said that out of 35,000 youths taking job training in cities hit by riots, only 20 had been arrested. Of the 12,000 students in Office of Economic Opportunity programs in the affected cities, according to Sargent Shriver, only six had been arrested. Senator Edward Brooke pointed out what everyone...
That was the message that Sargent Shriver, Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, told a Senate subcommittee considering the Administration's anti-poverty bill last Thursday...