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...current impetus to lower the school age stems from the general success-still largely statistical-of Project Head Start, which gave 560,000 "culturally disadvantaged" children from low income families eight weeks of preschool training last summer, will handle another 210,000 three-to-six-year-olds in a year-round program starting next fall...
...city dwellers, small neighborhood playground-parks are supposed to be outdoor, year-round rooms. Some rooms! Almost invariably the floors are asphalt, the walls are chain-link fences, and for furniture there is a never-changing assortment of head-chopping swings and lethal slides. Green areas are inevitably posted with KEEP OFF THE GRASS signs; when the signs are not obeyed, the grass wears down to dirt, seemingly overnight. When these outdoor rooms are also forced to function as community centers for all ages, chaos results...
Lyndon Johnson has requested $310 million to train 700,000 students in fiscal 1967, but Powell's committee would like to give him $400 million to train 845,000. Exhilarated by the program's success last summer, the President announced plans to turn Head Start into a year-round program for 350,000 needy children, only to discover that it would have cost three times as much money as was available. The upshot was an administrative nightmare. Communities deluged Washington with applications, and OEO had to reject or pigeonhole scores of them...
Comedies of error have also plagued OEO. After North Tonawanda, N.Y., School Superintendent Maurice Friot requested funds for a year-round Head Start program, OEO officials demanded considerable additional information, including how many men in the area had been rejected by draft boards. Inasmuch as Head Start deals with four-and five-year-olds, Friot thought this an unreasonable demand, protested to Washington. OEO withdrew the question. A more pointed criticism was leveled recently by the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, which reported that the OEO is now giving the 100 poorest counties in the U.S. less anti-poverty money...
...Living year-round in this wretched tourist town is a gang of resolute ne'er-do-wells who wait for the swinging summer months to con the vacationers. Leader of the group is Tinker (Oliver Reed), a street photographer and sex mechanic, who snaps pictures of new arrivals, his way of tagging every new bird on the scene. He and his cronies nest down with most of them, though their conquests seem singularly joyless. Typical, for Tinker, is one giddy pickup who starts nattering about love the minute she gets her clothes...