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...President, his "poverty czar" [March 20] and their henchmen are preparing to take another giant step in the plan to make the American citizen subservient to a regime. The "war on poverty" is obviously a vote-influencing scheme, another duplication of effort, another billion dollars for scattershot, another bureau to enlarge the federal payroll, another gimmick by a glib and slick-tongued politician. The chief cause of poverty is inflation, and after nearly three decades of "spending to create prosperity," inflationary policies are still predominant...
...short, outlines a war plan that ought to warm the cockles of any social worker's heart. But mighty crusades have an unhappy way of getting mired in the implementation. Cabinet officers who would be responsible for various aspects of the program insisted last week that the whole scattershot package could be properly administered without creating any wasteful new bureaucracy. Each was satisfied with the role assigned to his department, none resented the vast powers that would be handed to "Poverty Czar" Shriver. If the Administration can ever convince the Congress of that, the poverty war itself may prove...
...French are highly selective in contributing aid. They avoid scattershot programs and never offer aid without conditions. In terms of gross national product, France spends more than twice as much on foreign aid as the U.S., but it is largely poured into former colonies, from whom France gets clearly defined support in return. French taxpayers groan at the cost, but De Gaulle operates, as he grandly says, "from the viewpoint of France's higher interests, which is something quite different from the immediate advantage of the French people...
...readers who like to hoard their Hollywood gleanings like green stamps, Hedda has a wildly scattershot collection: Clark Gable had not a tooth of his own in his head; Sinatra, Jerry Lewis and Doris Day all shower at least three times a day; Mario Lanza roamed the streets of Beverly Hills at night in his Cadillac to batter down the mailbox of a movie mogul he thought had betrayed him; Harry Cohn broke up the romance of Sammy Davis Jr. and Kim Novak by having a thug threaten to work Sammy over. And if such racy bits never appeared...
...Sunday magazine of the New York Times. During that time, Sunday Editor Markel has stored up his share of gripes about the competence of his colleagues. In the current Harper's Magazine, Markel fires off a volley at what he calls "The Real Sins of the Press"-a scattershot barrage so broad that some of its shells might well fall on Markel's own paper...