Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...obliged to go back to their old desks. Many prefer to move on to the expanded vistas of bigger newspapers and magazines, others try for better-paying jobs in public relations or politics. A man's pre-fellowship boss may have an understandable beef, but Nieman Curator Dwight Sargent insists that fiddle-footed journalists can hardly be blamed on higher learning. "With or without a grant," he says, "reporters are a restless...
...Director Sargent Shriver feels as bad as he looks on your cover [May 13], we want him back in the Peace Corps for convalescence...
Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver called the Secretary's suggestion "an extremely significant proposal for all Americans...
...Sargent Shriver Jr., 50, who as Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity has been generalissimo of the war from its start, the answer is simple: It must be won. Shriver, the Kennedy brother-in-law who had previously nursed the Peace Corps from dubious birth to wide acclaim, admits that the anti-poverty campaign has been and will continue to be "noisy, visible, dirty, uncomfortable and sometimes politically unpopular." He argues, nonetheless, that if it should fail, the loss would be crucially damaging...
Despite his boosterish manner, Shriver is a shrewd politician. In 1957 his reputation as a businessman, tireless fund raiser and efficient president of the Chicago Board of Education resulted in a brief Sargent-for-Governor boomlet. It subsided quickly, but his friends expect another to develop-say, two years from now. "I don't have any current plan to run for office," he says, "but who knows what will happen in 1968 in Illinois?" He notes nonetheless that Governor Otto Kerner is finishing his second term, and only one man has ever run successfully for three terms in Illinois...