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Nixon would like to shift Operation Head Start, one of the few major successes of the war on poverty, to HEW. The poverty program's effort to furnish legal aid to the poor may be assigned to the Justice Department. Nixon and Moynihan would also like to scrap the Job Corps, which they consider inefficient. But he would need congressional approval for such steps-sanction that would not be easily obtained...
...expelled from one high school for "agitation." As an undergraduate at Shaw, he was nearly fired for leading a student strike against "an indifferent, broken-down faculty" and "Victorian social standards." Thus Cheek is an appropriate president for the campus where the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee got its start in 1960. Says Cheek: "I'm not telling my students to be sweet little nigger boys and girls so they can get a good...
...social programs by giving rather modest tax breaks and other incentives to private businessmen who hire and train the hard-core unemployed. Though many businessmen still doubt whether they can do more than dent the problem, the National Alliance of Businessmen this year got off to a good start by persuading 12,000 employers to hire 84,000 hard-core jobless people and to train many of them for productive work...
...better than it was before." Others agree. Two record companies have signed him on to make a total of 20 albums in the next two years. He has solid bookings through 1970, including a tour of the Soviet Union and Japan. In fact, he is busy enough to start thinking ahead about the next sabbatical. That one, however, will not last ten years...
Later in the week, probably worrying that his remarks might start a new flurry of currency speculation, Schiller tempered them a bit. He said that "there is no question of revaluing or devaluing right now," but that there might be a general realignment of Western currency parities in 1970 or 1971. Many continental financiers figure that values may have to change long before that-perhaps by next spring-unless the economic austerity programs in France and Britain sharply reduce the pressures on the franc and pound. Last week both currencies rallied a bit in international trading. The pound gained after...