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Just a year ago, the Congress-and much of the U.S.-was skeptical and wary of the newly created Peace Corps. Last week, as it celebrated its first birthday, the Peace Corps bathed in the warm glow of bipartisan praise-and knew just how to use its popularity to advantage. President Kennedy submitted legislation to increase the Corps' authorized strength from 2,400 to 6,700 by mid-1963, noting that the Corps' "early successes have fulfilled expectations." Peace Corps Director R. Sargent Shriver went before a House committee to ask $63.7 million for fiscal 1963, more than...
...CRIMSON Bookshelf, the literary supplement of the CRIMSON Review, will not appear today because of the Washington Birthday holiday. It will be included with tomorrow's CRIMSON...
...triumphal 75th birthday trip to the U.S., Nadia Boulanger, Paris' matriarch of modern music, became the first woman ever to conduct a full concert by The New York Philharmonic. Borrowing the podium of one of the few notable American composers who was never her pupil, mercurial Maestro Leonard Bernstein, the "tender tyrant" led the orchestra through psalms by her late sister...
...House Speaker John McCormack, headed off for Italy, Israel, Greece, Portugal, Spain and Britain, Teddy barnstormed through Belgium, Israel, Greece, Poland, France, West Germany and Austria. Regardless of how he fared abroad, however, ambitious Teddy Kennedy this week was slated to clear one major hurdle toward the Senate: the birthday that would bring him to the constitutionally required...
This week, as skiers head snowward for the Washington's Birthday weekend, traditionally the busiest of the year, resort operators are celebrating the biggest year skiing has known since man first set out on barrel staves. Deep valleys and isolated mountainsides that only a few years ago had been as quiet as Coney Island on Ground Hog Day are now echoing with cries of "Track!" ''Attention!'' "Pista!" and "Achtung!" (In many U.S. spots, "track" has been supplanted by golfdom's "fore.'') Spanking new lodges in a variety of architectural forms range from...