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Harvard's role, big or small, in the national Peace Corps should become clear in the very near future, Dean Monro said yesterday. R. Sargent Shriver, director of the Peace Corps, will leave today on a misison to Nigeria for conferences that should decide the final form of the American effort...
...There was a Maine scene by Winslow Homer, and the brooding Houses of 'Squam Light, Cape Ann by Realist Edward Hopper. Finally, with the President's home ground taken care of, came a typical Jacqueline touch. In choosing two rare Italian scenes in watercolor by John Singer Sargent-Venice's La Dogana (Customs House) and Villa di Marlia-the First Lady explained that she had been to both places and that the villa was now owned by a friend of hers, the Countess Pecci-Blunt...
...Sargent Shriver, Director of the Corps, "wants to use both men and women effectively," she reported, noting, "there is some indication that young married couples would do a better job than groups of single men and women." The program will send couples if both husband and wife are individually accepted for the Peace Corps...
...signaled an interest in John F. Kennedy's Peace Corps. Some 400 students from 300 colleges and universities couldn't wait. They met last week in Washington's American University for a Peace Corps conference called by the National Student Association and heard Peace Corps Boss Sargent Shriver warn: "This will not be a moonlight cruise on the Amazon or a pleasure vacation in Kashmir.'' Added Wisconsin's Congressman Henry S. Reuss, a sponsor of a youth corps bill: "You can expect freezing cold and burning heat, mud when it rains and dust when...
...President's message was delivered as a preface to a spech by R. Sargent Shriver, director of the peace corps, to a National Conference on Youth Service Abroad meeting here at American University...