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lover's Reputation; Never Quit R. Sargent Shriver: A style that dared to cross Chicago's Mayor Daley, and one earned him the label of traitor from i Jtf i if 1 fS'-i of intense ambition; a hard worker; and a Kennedy inlaw who often out-Kennedys the Kennedys. Shriver's critics over the years have noted apparently inevitable turmoil in the Shriver wake. But no one has ever questioned his energy, his drive or his persistence. Because of the Vietnam war, Shriver didn't have the right money and resources to win the anti-poverty war.

The knowledge that he was losing, however, did not stop Shriver. Instead, in 1967 he pitched into a major battle with Congress to try to save the poverty program from being wiped out altogether. "IT WAS a year of agony," says Herbert Kramer, a top assistant at the time, "and there was no help from the White House. WTe had a strategy meeting every morning. WTe got to calling it the 'Nine O'clock Club, and we even had blue membership cards printed up later.

"The card showing a man climbing a ladder the official symbol of the anti-poverty agency only it showed him with an arrow sticking into his tail. "We'd plan our attack for the day. Sarge spent all of his time in Congress buttonholing congressmen and senators. "He talked to 379 (of 535) congressmen and senators. "Nobody but Sarge has ever done anything like it before, or since." SHRIVER succeeded in saving the program from extinction, but it never received appropriations as high as $2 billion while he was aboard and poverty has hardly been wiped out in the United States.

Poverty program plans called for funding upwards See SHRIVER, Page E4 By JAMES MrCARTXEY Knight News Servict WASHINGTON The phone rang one morning at the White House in late 1966. Mayor Richard J. Daley of Chicago, one of the nation's most powerful Democratic leaders, was on the line, demanding to talk to President Johnson. "He gave the President holy hell about Sargent Shriv-er's antipoverty problem in Chicago," recalls Bill Moy-ers then a top White House aide. "Daley said Shriver was destroying the Democratic organization in Chicago by giving money to people who were fighting city hall." Johnson hung up the phone and turned to Moyers.

"That son-of-a-bitch Shriver just won't quit," he sighed. THE STORY is as good a description of the boldness and persistence of R. Sargent Shriver as ever to fall from Presidential lips. Shriver, now 56, began his career in Important Government posts as a conventional, bright-eyed organization man, a Catholic who became president of the Chicago public school board. But after he came to Washington in 1960 to head the Peace Corps, and then the anti-poverty program, his career is studded with incidents in which he has challenged the nation's establishments and cast himself in the role of burr under the saddle.

Research from coast-to-coast on the Shriver career suggests that whatever may be said of him, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee was no ordinary bureaucrat, is no ordinary man, no ordinary politician. THE SHRIVER story. Is the story of a supersales-man of whatever he is doing; a deeply religious individual; an imaginative and innovative bureaucrat; a man News and Views SECTION Akron Beacon Journal Sunday, September 3, 1972 usic Experience' Equals I WAMT A POISOM JZ 5ALL POIMT Thrilling Bit Of Hard Work pen and visits to other music camps for high school students at Saratoga, Tanglewood and Interlochen, Appling said, "No one had what we have in By BEN MAIDENBURG Pen Is Mightier With Signature terms of facilities and staff." APPLING and Bamert served as choral and instrumental conductors for the Summer Music Experience. Their staff included members of the Cleveland Orchestra and other professionals from Akron, Oberlin and Cleveland. All students started the day in theory and music literature classes and each had one private voice or instrumental lesson per week.

Guest lecturers, artists and conductors included Robert Shaw, music director of the Atlanta Symphony; Louis Lane, resident conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra, and Daniel Ma-jeske, concertmaster of the Cleveland orchestra. v. STUDENTS attended Blossom Music Center concerts regularly and Shaw's rehearsals of the Cleveland Orchestra and chorus. Bamert, a young Swiss conductor, said he had never worked with students before. "They are grateful for everything, very enthusiastic," he said.

When many of the students had their first opportunity to perform as soloists with an orchestra, Bamert took their nervousness in his stride. "They should be nervous we all are when we perform," he said. HE PRAISED the discipline and talent of such young artists as Paul See MUSIC, Page E-6 By HELEN CARRINGER eicon Journal Iducatitn Writer Morning afternoon evening for five weeks this Summer, Western Reserve Academy in Hudson rang with music. High school students, poised on the edge of their chairs in Hayden Hall, some in bare feet tapping out the tempo, elbows slightly out, rib cages expanded, sang exultantly a Bach mptet. Over in the chapel, Matthias Bam-ert, assistant conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra, stood on a pew rehearsing another group in the last movement of Schubert's Sixth Symphony.

HE STOPPED the young musicians suddenly in a fanfare passage. "It's short, light!" And again, when the violins took the melody, "Don't play with the arm, play it with the hand. Much better." Lunch time came. But even then, someone headed for the piano in Ellsworth Hall and the first big chords of the Grieg A Minor Concerto came crashing through the dining room. Then back to work, in private lessons, ensembles, individual practice.

THE "Summer Music Experience," an idea two years ago in the mind of William T. Appling, conductor of the WRA choral program, was turned into reality through efforts of Headmaster Peter Briggs and others. The Jennings Foundation funded the planning and the Kulas Foundation granted $40,000 to operate the first program. Appling, the director, radiates an enthusiasm that transferred to the faces and work of the 48 boys and girls. It was a case of total submersion in music from the time of their arrival July 19.

One week later, they gave their first concert. Other performances followed in quick succession two and three a week in endless combinations a cellist and pianist in a Brahms sonata, string ensembles; concertos for horn, violin and piano; vocal soloists, a brass choir in a lawn concert. THE MUSICAL togetherness car- A chapel seat at Western Reserve Academy is used by Matthias Baniert as he rehearses the student orchestra. Below, the baton work is by William Appling, choral conductor. has no desire to end the fighting in Vietnam.

NEARLY EVERY one of the dozen letters alluded to the same. It is possible that Mr. -Nixon would like to keep the war going, but if so, why has he pulled out all the ground-fighting units? If so, why is he holding so many public and private meetings with the Nortli Vietnamese? The very idea that Mr. Nixon wants to prolong the war is incredibly asinine. As for Mr.

Thieu: I've read often that he's a burglar but I haven't seen any positive proof. That he's dictatorial I certainly will concede. That makes it two dictatorships: one in Saigon and one in Hanoi. I don't think the late Ho Chi Minh was elected by popular vote, neither were his successors. Any more than the leaders of Red China or the Soviet Union were elected, or the rulers of Egypt or Syria or Libya or a number of other lands where the gun is the vote.

I MIGHT remind those who find dictatorship in Saigon that South Vietnam is at war. When the U. S. was in World War II, we indulged ourselves in dictatorship and censorship too. Let me remind the reader of what we did to the American citizens of Japanese descent.

We tore them from their homes and put them into concentration camps. We did other things because of the war. I was reminded by one correspondent that there was to have been an election in 1956 in Vietnam an election which might have united the wretched country. This election was prevented by Mr. Diem.

And I was reminded that the people of South Vietnam found Mr. Diem quite wanting and sought his ouster. As I recall the situation further, the United States also became a little sick and tired of Mr. Diem and so Mr. Diem was done away with, via bullets.

It is no secret that the U. S. was heavily involved. I was reminded by the writers that the See PEACE PENS, Page E-5 As you've noted in the Letters to the Editor department, many correspondents either agreed or took issue with my recent column on Sen. McGovern's promise to toss South Vietnam up for grabs if he were elected President.

The senator said that within 90 days after he took the oath of office he would remove the American presence from Indochina. He predicted, also, that President Thieu would thereupon run for it. I said that since the U. S. was trying to arrive at a peaceful solution, with a rather hard-nosed North Vietnam, Mc-Govern was doing nothing more than giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

I HAVE received a dozen letters ranging from the tart to the furious. These letters either came from brave people who didn't sign at all or used "pen" names. Oddly enough, while every letter scratched at me because I used the words "freedom of speech," they preferred to exercise their freedom in darkness, by being anonymous. In a way they remind me of those who refuse to vote, but who complain bitterly when the balloting results don't suit them. THE DOZEN correspondents all seem to have gotten the impression that I'm a war-lover.

Which is a lot of absolute nonsense. Anyone who'be been through a war (and I was) either has to hate war or else be sick. I don't think I'm ailing. One who wrote me (he addressed the letter to Mr. B.

Mildewberg) had to indulge himself for a page and a half in insults to my home state of Indiana and to commenting about the columns I used to do about my Mom and to what he called my "dirty Republicanism." What all these things had to do with Vietnam, I don't know I mention them only in passing. The' man who addressed me as Mildewberg" (I'll bet he had a big private cackle about that) insisted that (a) President Thieu of South Vietnam was a thief and scoundrel and dictator; and (b) that President Nixon ried over into the students' lives at the Academy. "All this business about race and student problems," said Appling, breaking into his gentle smile. "We had students all the way from Hough to Pepper Pike working together. They are incredible.

I'm absolutely thrilled. I feel so fortunate in the group we had here. "Sometimes I think I worked them too hard," he added. John Schreckengost, a senior at Cleveland Rhodes High School, disagreed. "NO MATTER how much I worked, it could never have been too much," he said.

John's own proudest Summer music experience came in the final concert when the orchestra performed his composition, "Nordic Heritage." The opening notes were given to the French horn played by John. Bryan Humbert of 1087 Applegrove North Canton, a voice student, said, "There's nothing to compare with the program anywhere. Mr. Appling could be teaching philosophy as well as music. There's so much more here than just singing.

It's really been a lift." "It is a unique program," Appling agrees. Based on his own experience at As- lii Informal dress of rehearsal can be deceiving. The rewards of intensive effort became apparent at concerts, and with the new insights toward music the 48 students took away. Also In This Section John S. Knight's Notebook: McGovern would not destroy capitalism, but enfeeble it.

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Lively Arts: Letters of young Stevenson evoke an only-yesterday feeling. Page E-6. Dick Shippy: Creativity is here you find it. Page E-8. Lm SSTi iiiiiiimailA nilMIlfcll.