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...started to paint this week's cover portrait of Sargent Shriver, chief of the anti-poverty campaign, Artist Ben Shahn recollected his own fairly close acquaintance with the condition of the poor. "I grew up with it," he says, "and then had another dose during the Depression...
...portrait of Shriver, his seventh TIME cover, is a good example of the qualities for which Shahn is noted: a sureness of line and tone, meticulous attention to detail, but not exactly a passion for photographic likeness. Shahn catches Shriver in a mood at once pensive and bemused, an intent man beset with a maze of problems. "His intention is good," Shahn says of him, "but he can't do it alone...
Offering their own substitute for the poverty program, the G.O.P. has introduced in the House a bill that would strip all programs but Community Action from Shriver's "fuddle factory" and turn them back to departments already equipped to run them. A companion bill offers industry a 7% tax credit for initiating job-creating training programs. These measures, claim its cosponsors, Representatives Charles Goodell of New York and Minnesota's Quie, would "completely restructure the popgun war on poverty" and replace "the mangled mishmash of overlapping, conflicting and wasteful programs" with more effective ones-all at a saving...
...Sargent Shriver sees his agency as the leader in the assault on poverty. "The programs of the OEO will cost the taxpayers only 1? out of every tax dollar," he says, "but this 1? provides the cutting edge of all our efforts. Because our 1? is directed at selfhelp, self-motivation, education and local community action, all of our programs are designed ultimately to end poverty...
...judicare" system, under which the poor will use credit cards for legal services. Cardholders will be allowed to use the lawyer of their choice, and their fees, at least 25% less than the regular minimum scale, will be paid out of a central fund. "In effect,'7 says Shriver, "the entire bar is taking a salary cut on behalf of the poor...