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...Peace Corps has a "profound effect" on the career choice of Volunteers, says Robert Calvert, director of the organization's Career Information Service...
Died. Rear Admiral Allen Phillip Calvert, 64, World War II commander of the PT-boat flotilla in which President Kennedy skippered the PT 109, for which he got the Distinguished Service Medal, later Deputy Chief of General MacArthur's planning staff; of heart disease; in Oakland, Calif...
...cooed the great-great-great-granddaughter of George Calvert, the first Lord Baltimore, "it's so romantic, this history and genealogy business. I'm so happy the flag is going back to America." Mrs. Barbara Soames was also delighted at what the flag was leaving behind for her: the $15,120 paid for the rare bunting, a modified Old Glory made about 1795, with 15 six-pointed stars and 15 stripes to represent the original colonies and newly admitted Vermont and Kentucky. The faded flag had been among the English Calverts for generations. Last week, with a fine...
Under its Calvert label, Seagram this week will begin marketing the four most popular U.S. cocktails-martini, Manhattan, whisky sour and daiquiri. The first shipments will go to Connecticut and northern New York, and then the Calvert cocktails will be gradually introduced around the U.S. Sam Bronfman seems so smitten with the idea that Edgar may put out mixed drinks under the costlier Seagram label, which has always been Sam's pet trademark...
...case of Angus Wilson's latest novel, the need is dire indeed. Its characters and their predicaments are sharply observed, but there seems no very good reason for observing them. Wilson's heroine is a lower-middle-class Englishwoman named Sylvia Calvert who at 65 retires as a manageress of a seaside hotel and goes with her reprobate husband to live with their widowed son. The son is a braying ass who busies himself with the affairs of his community, one of Britain's scientifically planned New Towns. He has a snobbish daughter and two sons...