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Until this year, VISTA, the Peace Corps, and the Marine Corps have been permitted, at their request, to set up information desks and distribute literature in the Lamont lobby...
...librarians, Wilson said, "have always been very leery of having any sort of advertising in the library." He said he had personally considered the presence of VISTA, the Peace Corps and the Marines an "intrusion" on the academic character of the library even when they were permitted to recruit...
...special job program. The House creates jobs for the boys, like house-painting, moving families for the Boston Redevelopment Agency, and poster hanging for political candidates. Then the boys must decide themselves about time schedules, salary levels, and equipment rental, if necessary. Last summer, eighty boys, led by several Vista voluteers and work-study students, earned more than...
...group of mothers, dissatisfied with the abnormally high food prices in the South End, got together and began buying truckloads of groceries wholesale. Soon several other neighborhood centers and block associations were putting in orders. Now the cooperative buys over $1000 worth of food each week. According to a VISTA volunteer working in the cooperative, "Families save anywhere from five to fifteen dollars a week on their grocery bill, depending on the size of the family. For people on welfare such a saving means an awfullot...
...some listeners, Irish folk music suggests a vista of the Wee Folk prancing in a Donegal sunrise, described in the sad sweet tones of John McCormack. But Ireland is currently in the middle of a folk-music craze similar to the one that swept the U.S. in 1963, and Macushla's blue eyes would turn glassy at the sound of it all. The undisputed leaders of the revolution are The Dubliners, five bearded, brawling musical assailants whose style is just about as far removed from the McCormack idiom as Sgt. Pepper is from The Chocolate Soldier...