Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Easy Man to Fire. Inevitably distorted by that same image of halos and high school heroes is Robert Sargent Shriver Jr., 47, director of the Peace Corps and brother-in-law of President Kennedy. He was once introduced on television as "the man known as Mr. Clean." He is so closely identified with the public's good-will-and-good-works vision of the Peace Corps that many people think he created the idea, sold it to the President, then dashed out in a blaze of idealism to make it work...
Shrivers fought in the French and Indian War and the Revolution; Sargent's grandfather rode as a teen-ager with Jeb Stuart in the Confederate cavalry. Shriver was reared in Maryland, a devout Catholic and hard-core Democrat. There was a fair amount of money from the family grain mill, built in Union Mills, Md., in 1797, and from a canning business. The son of a Baltimore bank vice president, Sargent prepped at Canterbury School, New Milford, Conn., went on to Yale, graduating cum laude in 1938, got his law degree three years later. While he was still...
...Robert Sargent Shriver Jr., director of the Peace Corps . . . LL.D...
Thirty-five seniors will receive their degrees summa cum laude, tomorrow, Sargent Kennedy '28, Registrar, revealed yesterday. This is the largest number over to be won by a single senior class...
Regular third-baseman Lee Sargent will miss today's game, and his place will probably be filled by glove specialist Bobby St. George...