Word: corpsmen
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Since then, the 35 corpsmen have become accustomed to lions, rhinos and other wild life while working with native trainees on a threeyear, $67 million road-building program. Geologist Allen Tamura, 23, from Pasadena, Calif., has also become an honorary blood brother in the nomadic Wagogo tribe for saving the life of a pregnant tribeswoman by rushing her in his truck over pitted jungle roads to a doctor 30 miles away. Said Tanganyikan Gabriel Bakari, assistant to a surveying team: "I can mix with the Peace Corpsmen in a way I never could before with white men and Asians...
This week, as Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver sent a massive report to the President on the first year of field operations, echoes of such praise are heard round the world. Even anti-Western Ghana has asked for more Peace Corpsmen. At home, the Corps has won approval from the initially skeptical U.S. Congress, which has agreed to double the first-year budget of $30 million. More than 1,000 members (one-third of them women) are now at work in 15 countries, and by the end of next month, 3,100 others will be in training for jobs...
According to Welmers, "the usefulness and French in Africa has been exaggerated." He stressed the of language training for Peace Corps volunteers and others planning to live and work in Africa, and cited the experience of the first groups of Corpsmen to support his contention...
...paced the show rather nicely, and manages, for the most part, to control the swarms of bosomy Pudding members that fill his stage. Once or twice, though, the number of people move about confusingly while a song or dialogue is going on; and a horseplay scene where the Corpsmen and the tribeswomen build a bridge is unnecessary...
Shriver now has 190 more Peace Corpsmen in training, and a vigorous recruiting campaign has brought applications flooding in; a record 4,000 applied to join the Peace Corps in February alone. By August, Shriver expects to have 5,000 volunteers either overseas or in training, and by October 1963 he is counting on having 10,000 Peace Corpsmen...