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...Millikan, who has advised President-elect Kennedy on questions of foreign aid for several years, was asked, soon after Kennedy's election, to draw up a memorandum listing his own proposals regarding the "Peace Corps" plan...
...Peace Corps" will be directed by a new Government board designed to supervise--though not to absorb--the activities of private organizations, if the Kennedy Administration adopts a set of proposals by Dr. Max Millikan, Director of International Affairs at MIT. The board would probably include members of the International Cooperation Administration, the United States Information Agency, the State Department, and private foundations and professional groups...
...memorandum delivered to President-elect Kennedy Saturday, Millikan further recommended that the program guarantee deferment, but not exemption, from the draft; that it be launched on a relatively small scale; and that it emphasize the teaching of specific skills. He also suggested that the name "Peace Corps" be replaced by the title International Youth Service Agency (IYSA...
Also speaking, and commenting on his talk were a panel, including Charles C. Colby, professor emeritus of Geography at the University of Chicago; Lincoln Gordon, '34, William Ziegler Professor of International Economic Relations at Harvard Business School; Max F. Millikan, professor of Geography at MIT; and Gilbert F. White, professor of Geography at the University of Chicago...
...Millikan turned from the facts and figures to muse for a while about "science-fiction" type solutions for the problems...