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Encouraging Signs. In Washington. Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver took the incident more or less philosophically. The language of the student protests, said Shriver, was "familiar rhetoric. It is not surprising that certain groups are working by mind and mimeograph to destroy the Peace Corps." As for Margery Michelmore, who at week's end was in Puerto Rico to discuss her Peace Corps future with U.S. officials, Shriver said that "she has not resigned, and we hope...
...prize that carried any kind of prestige. Some of his most ambitious paintings were ridiculed, and so little value was placed on his portraits that several, including one of President Hayes, have simply disappeared. At one point, even his native Philadelphia seemed to forget him: when John Singer Sargent came to town and asked to meet Eakins, he got the bewildered reply: "And who is Eakins?" Viewers who see the big (103 items) Eakins retrospective* now at the National Gallery in Washington will be as puzzled as their fathers were before them as to how this straightforward, no-nonsense artist...
...through the French doors leading to President Kennedy's office. The girls were bright in their flowered summer dresses, the men were turned out in their Sunday best, and everyone was smiling and chatting amiably -sometimes in Swahili and Twi. Inside, the President and his brother-in-law, Sargent Shriver, looked for all the world like fathers of the bride as they greeted each of the young guests. The occasion was a farewell party for 80 young volunteers (average age: 25) bound for teaching and road-building jobs in Ghana and Tanganyika. They had just completed two months...
Contemporary Jungle. Only ultramodern Kennedy home is Sargent and Eunice Kennedy Shriver's duplex in Chicago's Lincoln Park section. Much of the furniture was designed by Denmark's Finn Juhl and the U.S.'s Eero Saarinen; the living room is a jungle gym of iron chair frames and brass lamp poles, set off by modern paintings by Josef Albers and Hugo Weber. The paneled library with its early 19th century English desk is the only noncontemporary room in the apartment. "I didn't want to make the library modern," says Eunice Shriver, "because...
...seem to be well justified. Established by Executive Order on March 1, the Corps has developed into an efficient, if not always smooth and neat, organization. At hearings on the Peace Corps Bill conducted by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo.) publicly lauded Director R. Sargent Shriver for his presentation of the Peace Corps' case. It is a good thing he did not take the short tour on the heels of a Public Relations man that some did. The senator would undoubtedly be amazed at how anything coherent could emerge from the chaos, unless he once...