Word: corpsmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Powell committee staff that criticized some OEO projects was obtained by the New York Post. The published news story depicted serious troubles at a Job Corps center at New Jersey's Camp Kilmer. An OEO spokesman responded that Kilmer is "one of our better camps," adding lamely: "Some corpsmen get drunk on weekends, but the problem is no more than on a college campus. We had some problems in the sodomy line, but it's expected when men are together. It is part of human nature...
...miss you, baby." And Sargent Shriver, 50, is going to miss his baby too. Having left the Peace Corps to devote full time to the domestic war on poverty, he said goodbye on the corps' fifth anniversary at a "Shriver a Go-Go Party." As 1,500 corpsmen and friends jammed into the ballroom of Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel, Shriver assured everyone that things would still be jumping under new Director Jack Hood Vaughn. "Jack's a fighter," said Sarge...
General conclusion of the study: Peace corpsmen do make a difference. Among the findings is that Peace Corps communities progressed at a rate 2.8 times faster than those communities without volunteers...
...subjects were 50 Peace Corpsmen, the first Volunteers in the Andes. They operated in communities located in spectacular mountain country at extreme altitudes (some as high as 13,000 feet), inhabited by the Indian descendants of the Inca civilization, interspersed in the larger towns and cities by mestizos, Peruvians of mixed Spanish and Indian blood...
...authors (Dr. Dobyns, Dr. Allan R. Holmberg, chairman of the Cornell anthropology department and Dr. Paul L. Doughty, now on the Indiana University faculty) tell the story of how Peace Corpsmen were expelled from the village of Vicos by a vote of its Indian inhabitants, and how some of the Volunteers were then specifically asked to return to the village...