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Between a bloodletting by its foes and a force-feeding from its friends, the Administration's poverty program was in danger of total renovation on the Senate floor last week. The pro gram's critics sought to dismember Sar gent Shriver's Office of Economic Opportunity; its champions strove to heap half again as much largesse on the OEO as the White House had requested or wanted in a year of planned retrenchment. In the end, after an elaborate series of votes and floor maneuvers, the Senate passed a slightly enlarged version of Lyndon Johnson...
...subject was abortion, virtually unthinkable as a topic of public discussion only a few years ago. The sponsors of the Washington conference of physicians, sociologists, theologians and jurists were an unlikely pair: the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation and the Harvard Divinity School. Eunice Kennedy Shriver explained for the foundation that it was concerned with the subject because abortion has been recommended as a means of reducing the number of children doomed to mental retardation. Harvard Theologian Herbert W. Richardson said the conference was designed to put public discussion of abortion on a higher plane...
...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...
...children from low-income families for a college education. One survey of the 1965 summer group shows that 80% did enter college and only 23% failed to finish their first year-roughly the average freshman-class dropout rate. The program, says the Office of Economic Opportunity's Sargent Shriver, has been "surprisingly effective...