Word: shriver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sarge, baby, you're a real swinger," cried Murray the K, hoisting his Beatle boots onto Sargent Shriver's walnut conference table. What was Murray the K doing in the office of the Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity? Well, he had an idea for reaching the U.S.'s more than a million school dropouts and unemployed kids with a TV program that would really grab them where they lived. Where they lived, said Murray, was with the Supremes and the Righteous Brothers and Cannibal and the Headhunters. And in between sets, Murray would...
Head Start is part of Lyndon Johnson's war on poverty, run by Sargent Shriver's Office of Economic Opportunity. It is directed by ten professionals, headed by Dr. Julius B. Richmond, dean of New York's State University Upstate Medical Center faculty and a lifelong researcher in effects of deprivation on children. Most communities were given a mere six weeks to work out their local plans to qualify for the 90% share of federal money...
...Shriver's staff anticipated programs for 100,000 children in 300 communities at a cost of $17 million, was startled -and pleased-by a response nearly six times greater. More than half of the cooperating communities are in Southern and border states. A high proportion of the children are Negro; conforming to the Civil Rights Act's Title VI, the whole project, North and South, is integrated. Federal costs average $170 per child...
...transformed into a tented version of Maxim's in Paris. Party regulars (Vice President Humphrey, Lynda Bird) and regular partygoers (Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Vogue Editor Diana Vreeland, Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart) were all there, along with a clambake of Kennedys (Bobby, Ethel, Ted, Eunice and Sargent Shriver), a détente of diplomats, and a ponderosity of pundits. The music, fittingly enough, was provided by the orchestra of society's pet pianist, Peter Duchin, who is Averell Harriman's godson. And even in the crush of Paris designs, Duchin's wife, Cheray, glowed like...
Clan Within. When the showdown came, the Kennedy clan was on hand in force. Watching from the Senate gallery were Teddy's wife, Joan, in a pink frock; Sister Eunice Shriver; and Bobby's wife, Ethel. Temporarily presiding over the session was Bobby himself. Taking the floor against the amendment, Dirksen asked: "If Congress can tell the states by statute this afternoon that they cannot impose a poll tax, why not tell them they cannot impose a cigarette tax or any other tax?" Democratic Leader Mansfield worried that the amendment might endanger the entire voting-rights bill...