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...Vista recruiting officers will be at Lamont Library today from 9 a.m. to noon and from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m., and at the Union and Quincy House from noon to 1:30 p.m. A half hour movie, "A Year From Tomorrow" will be in Emerson 210 at 4 p.m. today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vista | 7/25/1967 | See Source »

...part, was calm enough. When it was clear that he would not receive a third stay of execution, he handed over his possessions, including his pet parakeet, to two of his surviving sons, signed papers giving the corneas of his eyes to a blind boy in Buena Vista. Then, after a short walk to the changing room on the third floor, he stripped to his shorts-condemned men must wear as little as possible so that cyanide will not cling to their clothes and endanger guards-and walked into the gas chamber. Five seconds after a pound of cyanide eggs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colorado: No. 77 | 6/9/1967 | See Source »

Opportunity Crusade. Under a G.O.P. antipoverty plan unveiled last week, appropriations would total $315 million less than Johnson wants. The OEO would simply be abolished and all its programs-the Job Corps, VISTA (the domestic Peace Corps), Head Start and the Community Action Program-transferred to other federal agencies, mostly John Gardner's Department of Health, Education and Welfare. As for Antipoverty Czar R. Sargent Shriver, he might, quipped Minnesota's Republican Congressman Albert Quie, become an assistant secretary under Gardner. "Shriver and OEO," said Quie, "have failed." Unless the program is overhauled, echoed New York Republican Charles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: No Escalation | 4/21/1967 | See Source »

While he was in Laredo last month. Hale called on Kazen in his downtown law offices. What they discussed is unknown, but many suspect that Kazen has long felt the whole Laredo VISTA program to be a potential threas to the smooth functioning of the machine, and was taking this opportunity to help get rid of two of the biggest "troublemakers...

Author: By William C. Bryson, | Title: When a Poverty Program Meets a Machine Or, What Happened to VISTA in Laredo | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

Immediately after their dismissal. Birnbaum and Ruhe announced they were going to appeal their case to VISTA chief Bill Crook in Washington, and were going to demand that they be given a full and fair hearing. Furthermore, they say they will insist that the charges against them be made more specific than "immaturity and irresponsibility...

Author: By William C. Bryson, | Title: When a Poverty Program Meets a Machine Or, What Happened to VISTA in Laredo | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

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