Word: sargent
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Bowles repeatedly petitioned the Corporation to take no action until constitutional issues raised in the M.I.T. suit are settled. Harvard had nothing to lose by quietly honoring Bowles's request for a postponement until that suit is adjudicated. Sargent Kennedy, Secretary to the Corporation, has insisted that Harvard "had no choice but to obey the laws of the Commonwealth." Yet he has admitted that a college or university cannot be prosecuted if one of its teachers refuses to sign the oath; the University would not have been liable if it had held off until the fall, when the M.I.T. case...
...Cambridge segment for the Inner Belt is expected to be announced early next week by Francis W. Sargent, commissioner of the State Department of Public Works. A spokesman for the department said yesterday that he doubted the federal government would abandon the inner Belt. It has already approved all major segments for the Belt except the Cambridge portion, he said...
Singer Harry Belafonte told the guest of honor: "We're going to miss you, baby." And Sargent Shriver, 50, is going to miss his baby too. Having left the Peace Corps to devote full time to the domestic war on poverty, he said goodbye on the corps' fifth anniversary at a "Shriver a Go-Go Party." As 1,500 corpsmen and friends jammed into the ballroom of Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel, Shriver assured everyone that things would still be jumping under new Director Jack Hood Vaughn. "Jack's a fighter," said Sarge...
...Says Weaver: "There are certain functions which must in time be placed in the department. The problem now is to identify these and encourage the Administration to sponsor reorganization plans to bring them about." One big, politically sensitive area that will almost certainly be identified as HUD property is Sargent Shriver's poverty-oriented community action program...
Kennedy's campaign pledge to send "the best Americans we can get to speak for our country abroad" caused an instantaneous stir across the nation. Mail cascaded into Washington. One of the first things the new President Kennedy did after taking office was to direct his brother-in-law Sargent Shriver to determine whether foreign governments were interested in receiving Volunteers...