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...there are 4,826 volunteers overseas now, and a buildup begins this month to increase the corps to 9,000 by next January. They will be scattered in 47 countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America. In scores of small ways, through their own zeal and ingenuity, the Peace Corpsmen have made a disproportionate number of friends for the U.S. Items...
...Punjab, India, Peace Corpsmen arrived to find that the U.S. foreign aid program had purchased an electric wheat-grinding machine months ago for the natives' use. Unfortunately, it had sat idle ever since. Reason: the electric cord had a flat-pronged American-style plug instead of the round-pronged plug needed in India. The Peace Corpsman merely chopped off the American plug, grafted on an Indian plug, and put the machine to work to the great gratification of the whole community...
...scene with a White House concert, is 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...
Still they come, all year round, to see the famed old man in his storied jungle setting. Public figures like Adlai Stevenson, starry-eyed U.S. Peace Corpsmen, spinster schoolteachers realizing a longstanding dream-all come for a visit to Dr. Albert Schweitzer. At his mission three miles upstream from the Gabonese village of Lambaréné, "the great white doctor," now 88, affably greets them, autographing his books in a fine, steady hand. Yet, after devoting nearly two-thirds of his life ministering to the sick of equatorial Africa and being widely regarded as a near saint, Schweitzer...
Liberal critics have attacked the provision that would allow Corpsmen to undertake projects in an area only at the request of local officials. The critics claim this might undercut the effectiveness of the program in the South, where local officials would be unlikely to ask for projects in Negro areas...