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Beekeepers & Fish Hatchers. Vaughn takes over the Peace Corps as it approaches its fifth birthday. Since its first year, when there were 526 volunteers in 13 countries, the corps has grown apace, now has 10,380 volunteers at work in 46 countries from Afghanistan to Venezuela. Its annual appropriation has risen from $30 million to this year's $114.1 million. Fifty percent of the Corpsmen are teachers, the rest are involved in rural and urban-community development, health projects, agriculture and public works...
...remember how fascinated you were when you first read the story of Jeanne d'Arc and how your ambition was to be something like her?" wrote Jawaharlal Nehru from a British prison in India to his daughter on her 13th birthday in 1930. "In India today we are making history, and you and I are fortunate to see this happening before our eyes. I cannot say what part will fall to our lot, but whatever it may be, let us remember that we can do nothing that may bring discredit on our cause or dishonour to our people. Goodbye, little...
...when the shots were fired, they were off target; the knives and brickbats missed; the flung cue balls were wide of the mark. Johnny Broderick, "the world's toughest cop," was destined to die in bed-which he did last week of a heart attack on his 72nd birthday...
...living until his 30th year. ("I did not throw myself into the struggle for life. I threw my mother into it. I made a man of myself [at my mother's expense] instead of a slave," he wrote.) He did not lose his virginity until his 29th birthday, as a direct consequence, he protested, of having bought a respectable suit of clothes. "Virgo intacta still," he confided to his diary before the event. "Forced caresses," he noted gloomily a few days later, true to his ungallant belief that woman is the predator, man the prey. "The ideal woman...
...Centre, Minn., decided to keep right on making the best of that bad review native son Sinclair Lewis gave them 45 years ago. To prove that the place was never the philistine hotbed that the late author pictured in Main Street, the fictional "Gopher Prairie" celebrated Lewis' 75th birthday five years ago and started calling Main Street "the Original Main Street." Now they're heaping more coals of praise on old Red's head by raising $25,000 through the Sinclair Lewis Foundation to buy his two-story boyhood home and restore it to look...