Word: successful
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...scheme seemed persuasive to many conservative Southerners and normally liberal big-city Democrats, who complain that local politicians do not have enough control over many OEO projects in their areas. After last summer's riots, there was bitter talk about not rewarding rioters, and the plan's success seemed to be inevitable. Few on Capitol Hill could challenge the self-confident assertion of New York's Charles Goodell, chief Republican strategist, that the three-year-old war on poverty would be "maimed, mutilated and mangled" before it passed the House...
Loosened Purse Strings. From Surveyor's success has come man's first detailed knowledge of the consistency and chemical makeup of lunar soil, data and pictures that will influence the choice of the first astronaut landing site, and confirmation that the soft-landing system of the Apollo lunar module-similar to Surveyor's-is well conceived and workable...
South End House has achieved notable success with one large Cambridge employer--Harvard University. Harvard has has hired more than twelve secretaries through the House. One social worker contrasted Harvard's response to that of "other Boston colleges closer to the House that practice a subtler form of discrimination." Several other Boston colleges rejected Gopen's approaches...
South End House's economic orientation has been a success with the local residents. As one local teenager said, commenting on the House, "I like it."The Grocery Coop Unloading $1000 Worth of Food...
Considering the gloomy prospects which were held out for the poverty program six months ago, Thursday's House passage of the Johnson Administration's anti poverty bill was a significant victory. Sargent Shriver, whose skillful legislative diplomacy was a major factor in the bill's success, said the felt "almost like the Boston Red Sox." The various programs of the Office of Economic Opportunity were not scattered among other government agencies, as foes of the bill had threatened. Nor were any of the controversial programs of the OEO, such as the Job Corps eliminated...