Word: shrivers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interested in-and into-college. These projects are a teen-age parallel to Project Head Start (TIME, July 2), the summertime preschooling program for five-and six-year-olds financed by federal anti-poverty funds. Like Head Start, they were pioneered by private foundations, then picked up by Sargent Shriver's Office of Economic Opportunity. Under the $2.5 million Government program-which, in the mania for rah-rah labels, Shriver calls Upward Bound -about 2,500 high school kids are enrolled in eight-week summer-training courses at 17 colleges, while another 25 projects are still privately financed...
...Both Sargent Shriver and former Vice President Nixon "have excellent vibrations for the good of America and will serve their country well. The former, however, must guard against assassination attempts...
...Both Sargent Shriver and former Vice President Nixon "have excellent
California Republican H. Allen Smith called the program a "monstrous boondoggle" that was being increased although there had been no "meaningful evaluation" of it. Ohio Republican William Ayres chided the Administration for keeping Shriver as head of both the domestic Office of Economic Opportunity and the foreign Peace Corps. Said Ayres: "We are now asked to double the appropriation and still retain a half-time director." Pennsylvania Democrat John Dent liked the program's aims but charged both Republican and Democratic Governors with using the program for political purposes-"both in the same poker game, and both have...
Born. To R. Sargent Shriver, 49, Peace Corps and Poverty War director; and Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 43: their fifth child, fourth son (her first caesarean); in Boston. Name: Paul Fitzgerald Kennedy...