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...Lucia, there was skepticism behind the welcoming speeches. 'Here they come,' said one socially prominent St. Lucian woman, 'straight from school to people who manage very nicely earning nothing-to teach them about refrigeration and The Star-Spangled Banner.' But today, America's Peace Corpsmen in St. Lucia have assimilated themselves into the St. Lucian society with an enthusiasm that would have made the first missionaries quake in horror. They are on first-name terms with thousands...
...Corpsmen have piled up hundreds of these tiny triumphs-ranging from teaching the twist in Nyasaland to growing lettuce in Brazil to building badminton courts in Borneo. They have been treed by African buffaloes, serenaded by Filipino gigolos, adopted as sons by Southeast Asian aborigines, frightened by playful natives tossing pythons in their laps...
...Shrivers now rent a 14-room farm home on 30 acres in Rockville, Md. They entertain visiting firemen and corpsmen with vigorous hours of softball, touch football and swimming. Shriver is a good tennis player, easily beats Bobby, who is the Kennedy clan's best. He is also an art connoisseur, has a diversified personal collection including Salvador Dali, Kenzo Okada...
That sounds just about right to the U.S. and to many other countries. Hearing about the work of the Peace Corpsmen, one country after another has asked to be included in the program. Where Peace Corpsmen have already been sent, requests have come in for more. Even Nkrumah's Ghana, where government-run, Communist-lining newspapers still rail at the Peace Corpsmen as "agents of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency," the government itself has urgently requested that the 113-man Peace Corps contingent be doubled. In Nigeria, where poor Margery Michelmore caused all that commotion, the present group...
Looking down the gun barrel is sometimes necessary. But Sarge Shriver and his Peace Corpsmen have at least started to make helping people a practical, and perhaps historic, alternative...