Pell Grants; a 'Titanic Struggle'

The year 1972 was one of the busiest for Pell. It was the year he finally realized his ambition of a college-aid program that would come to be called the Pell Grants, an ambition accomplished in the thick of angry debate over busing; the year he began as a huge underdog for reelection against John Chafee, a campaign The Providence Journal rightly caleld a "Titanic Struggle"; and the year his mother died. I am writing all this now in the longest chapter yet of the bio.
When the year was over, Pell grew a mustache. Here's a shot of him wearing it. A very different look for A Very Different Senator.
And also, a flyer from the 1972 campaign. A very clever pun of a slogan, "Pell: When you stop to think."