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...heavily committed to the project. Declares one city official, "We're ready to put a lot of money in there," and Bedford-Stuyvesant is one of the three neighborhoods for which New Yorks has applied for Model Cities funds. In addition, Lindsay and such top aides as Mitchell Sviridoff, head of the Human Resources Administration, favor the kind of local autonomy that Kennedy wants to see. Says Sviridoff, "Things should be organized out there, planned out there, and run out there...
...government and to set up just about any kind of program it wants, is in a unique position to try. One effort perhaps should be to invite as honorary associates young and imaginative newcomers to the federal and state governments -- officials like Senator Mark O. Hatfield, or Mitchell Sviridoff of New York City's anti-poverty program -- who can give students an idea of the possibilities and excitement of politics and public service. The Institute could also ask former government offifficals to visit Harvard to give students some insight into past policy disputes and decisions. Two excellent choices would...
...local politicos, has ranged the nation in search of talented men. Despite complaints from the press about his free hand, he pays them salaries that go above $30,000, an incentive to talent that few big cities offer. Among those who have answered Lindsay's call: » Mitchell Sviridoff, 47, who made New Haven's antipoverty program famous well before the federal program began and became president of the National Association of Community Development. He put together New York City's new human-resources administration and last week was sworn in as its first director...
Since his election, the Mayor has taken several high-level steps toward meeting his promises. First, he commissioned several studies directed toward government re-organization. Mitchell Sviridoff, director of the successful New Haven anti-poverty program, proposed a drastic re-organization of New York's badly fragmented anti-poverty structure. A Human Resources Administration, which will be headed by Sviridoff himself, has been created to oversee all poverty programs; quasi-independent community corporations will be organized in poverty areas to coordinate programs at the local level...