Word: sviridoff
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Dates: during 1966-1966
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...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...