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...Senate an anti-poverty authorization bill of $1.9 billion for the current fiscal year. This was $400 million more than the original Administration request and $1.1 billion above the appropriation for the nine months that ended June 30. Further, the new bill gives Anti-Poverty Chief Sargent Shriver the right to reverse a Governor's veto of federal decisions to place certain types of projects in the Governor's state...
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...
...tastes are quite square. However, I work with young people, and I forced myself to watch the program. The next morning I checked with the young people, and their response was unanimous. The program was a swinger and the message got through. Congratulations to "the K" and Sargent Shriver for trying to communicate in a language youth understands. Perhaps our outraged and nauseated legislators could learn a few lessons about trying to communicate with people where they live...
...DeEr ReedER: ONE of The AmAZIN FACKS abouT the RITEr of this bOOK is he nose a lil SUMPthin $$$$$$ ABOut The SUBjeck he writ ABOut. He was a skOOL DRop-oUT." So begins the latest federal literature out of Sargent Shriver's Office of Economic Opportunity-a comic book called Li'l Abner and the Creatures from Drop-Outer Space. Cartoonist Al Capp, 55, plucks Li'l Abner out of Dogpatch, the world's most bizarre poverty pocket, installs him as a "brilliant young technician with a big job, and even bigger feet, who befriends Danny...
...city council last week voted 6 to 1 to request the Job Corps to move its girls' center out of town. The center, planned for 284 girls, had been set in the heart of the city's most genteel hotel district. There were complaints, stoutly denied by Shriver's office, that around the center the girls made too much noise and that some had taken to necking with boys. Also under protest was the $225,000 rent for 18 months paid by the OEO for the Huntington Hotel, which houses the center-$20,000 more than...