Word: ica
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Organization of one big aid agency, with authority over half a dozen separate activities now going their separate ways-including the International Cooperation Administration, Point Four programs, Development Loan Fund, Food for Peace and the new Peace Corps. (Probable director: ICA Chief Henry R. Labouisse, 57, an old hand at foreign aid, relief, and economic affairs...
...assignments, most of them involved with foreign aid, relief missions and economic affairs. After that he turned in an excellent performance for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, directing the aid program for Arab refugees. In 1959 he was President Eisenhower's choice for the ICA post, but Capitol Hill Republicans blocked the appointment because New Orleans-born Labouisse was a registered Connecticut Democrat. His second wife (the first died in 1945) is Eve Curie, author-daughter of the discoverers of radium...
...ICA is not eager to assume control of a large scale Youth Corps, but the ey may hire an increasing number of young college graduates as part of its intern technical assistance programs...
...Peace Corps plan is presently being studied by a non-governmental committee, appointed by the International Cooperation Administration and financed by funds allocated in the Mutual Security Act of 1960. ICA officials expect the report to be completed by May at the latest...
Erasing the Doubts. The prestigious U.S. delegation, headed by Dillon and including U.S. Inter-American Development Bank Director Robert Cutler, ICA Latin American Chief Rollin Atwood, Development Loan Fund Managing Director Vance Brand, Assistant Treasury Secretary Graydon Upton, listened, argued, learned. Dillon's speech erased most of the Latin Americans' doubts...