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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...puts his feet up on the desk, and begins to talk excitedly about the changes going on in Roxbury. He touches on urban renewal and construction of new buildings, mentions new schools and community centers, and then federal, state, and local relief programs with unintelligible letter codes--Operation Head Start, ABCD, or the BRA. He also talks about things that aren't changing so fast as one would like them to--crime and violence on the streets, unemployment, bad housing, discouraged people. Then into this quick sketch of the condition of Roxbury, Miller fits his own venture, the Banner...
...year. Appropriations came late this year, and the nine and one half million dollars was not approved by the President until last week. Congress had been told by members of the Office of Education that it would be difficult to find personnel for the program if officials could not start recruitment until May, but the government moved slowly. Since the Corps is primarily designed for graduating seniors, the result of starting in mid-May is that many potential candidates who would have been best qualified for the program are already committed...
...Corps will also probably qualify its members for Selective Service deferment, and this will tempt critics of deferable programs to believe that students are joining the Corps to avoid the draft. This criticism will probably be more valid this year than next year when the Corps can start recruitment earlier and have a wider range of applicants to select from. As it is now, applications...
Problems of poverty and insufficient education often seem insurmountable, and the Teacher Corps may be able to open a pipeline between the government and local school systems. The Teacher Corps, like the Peace Corps, may be able to experiment with new methods and make a start on some of the insoluble problems of today...
...hiring policy based on seniority in the strictest sense-meaning that all Guildsmen on all three merged papers would be ranked by time on the job. Women's-page reporters, sportswriters, political specialists would be mixed on the same list, and the roster of those hired would start...