Word: corpsmen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Other sections of the bill deal with broad outlines for selection, training, and service, stipulations for pay, insurance, and future benefits under government plans, provisions for volunteer leaders, married couples, and foreign nationals to help with the training and selection of Corpsmen...
Last week Peace Corps headquarters in Washington named the first 27 selected Peace Corpsmen, some to go to South America's Colombia and others to Africa's Tanganyika. On their records and aspirations, it appeared that they might do the U.S. more good than harm in their efforts to aid the world's underdeveloped countries. Among them...
...volunteers have applied so far for President Kennedy's Peace Corps. They had hoped to receive some 15,000 applications by the end of May, when entrance examinations will be held in 330 U.S. cities. Then, after a rigorous screening, they would be able to enlist 1,000 corpsmen-just enough for a first-year pilot program. Now, faced with the prospect of obtaining far less than 1,000 acceptable corpsmen, Peace Corps officials may lower entrance requirements, cut back or stretch out programs planned for work-fertile areas...
...first Peace Corps volunteers will go to equatorial Tanganyika. A band of 28 U.S. surveyors, geologists and civil engineers-all men-will arrive about Oct. 1 for two years of mapping and building much-needed secondary roads. Next countries due to get Peace Corpsmen: Nigeria and several Latin American republics...
Financial support is the crucial limiting factor in the program, said Stookey. For the most part, corpsmen will have to pay for their own room, board, and transportation. A budget of $12,000 is needed to cover basic expenses as well as grants-in-aid to "talented men and women who need summer earnings to meet college fees...