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During the 1960 presidential campaign, Richard Nixon said that John Kennedy's proposed Peace Corps sounded like "a haven for draft dodgers." More recently, a poverty-program official in the Nixon Administration sneered at VISTA, the Peace Corps' domestic counterpart: "The day that Lady Bountiful comes down from Scarsdale for a day of good works in Harlem is over...
Alternative careers also include (mostly low paying) with a basic commitment to service or to social change. At Duke, alternatives placement is primarily involved in informing students about such organizations as VISTA, the Peace Corps and the Teacher Corps (which still attract about 15,000 people of all ages annually and are being melded into one organization called the Action Corps), and the Office of Economic Opportunity. At Michigan State University, which runs the nation's biggest college placement operation, all 1,200 copies of each issue of its Vocations for Social Change newsletter are eagerly snapped up. It advertises...
...expansion of people's awareness about what they are entitled to receive under the present welfare system has brought more people onto the rolls. National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO), born in 66, works to alert people to their eligibility. Inreased numbers of VISTA volunteers and Community Action workers have been informing people in poverty and urban areas of their rights...
...unclear whether similar sentiments were expressed by Chairman C. Douglas Dillon '31 to his Board of merry Overseers yesterday as they boarded a vista-vision tour bus for their first trip together around Harvard. The Overseers' Executive Committee voted yesterday morning that the bus tour was an "official" part of the Overseers' meeting and therefore "off-the-record...
...celebrates his 39th birthday this week, Edward M. Kennedy enjoys a unique political vista: theoretically at least, he could be running for President in the elections of 1992, when he will be merely a mellow...