Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Easy Man to Fire. Inevitably distorted by that same image of halos and high school heroes is Robert Sargent Shriver Jr., 47, director of the Peace Corps and brother-in-law of President Kennedy. He was once introduced on television as "the man known as Mr. Clean." He is so closely identified with the public's good-will-and-good-works vision of the Peace Corps that many people think he created the idea, sold it to the President, then dashed out in a blaze of idealism to make it work...
...Shriver, if nothing else, is a realist. He shuddered when he heard himself described as "Mr. Clean." He did not dream up the Peace Corps. Indeed, when the time came in the winter of 1961 for John Kennedy to make good on a 1960 campaign promise to create the corps, he tapped his brother-in-law-and Shriver dodged. "But he told me," says Shriver, "that everyone in Washington seemed to think that the Peace Corps was going to be the biggest fiasco in history, and it would be much easier to fire a relative than a friend...
...jail, he lived like the prince of ponces. For 56? a day, he was able under British prison regulations to get a cell with a soft bed, a carpet on the concrete floor, curtains on the barred window, an armchair, and another prisoner to clean up after him. During the three weeks Stephen Ward was in jail, John Profumo had been disgraced, Evgeny Ivanov expelled from the Communist Party and packed off to a Russian mental hospital, and Christine Keeler successfully screen-tested for the proposed "dramatized documentary" of her life. But last week Artist-Osteopath Ward, the fourth member...
...among the many who think that the presence of booze and dark lust in the nightclubs is harmful to their art. Winter, who figures that jazz musicians can be of greater help to the world's teetering countries than Peace Corpsmen or even helicopter pilots, wants them to clean up their lives for the great leap into diplomacy. "Jazz is one of the few hopes the free world has left," he says earnestly, "and what could be of real help everywhere is a Jazz Corps!" The jazz audience, in large part, agrees, insisting that its musicians have been...
...bottom. The pictures picked out hundreds of pieces of twisted metal, a shredded copper cable, a half-pint milk carton standing peacefully right side up, and a white Navy coffee mug lying on its side. Nothing has yet been identified conclusively as coming from Thresher, but everything is clean and new-looking, and the metal is untarnished...