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...featured speaker will be R. Sargent Schriver, President Kennedy's brother-in-law and administrator of the Administration's Peace Corps proposal. Schriver will speak to the delegates tomorrow evening...
...Sargent Kennedy '28 has resigned his post as Secretary of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, it was learned yesterday. His successor is Edward L. Pattullo, assistant dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...White House summary of the report that R. Sargent Shriver, Jr., the director of the national Peace Corps, submitted to President Kennedy, said that the Federal program would operate in part "through arrangements with colleges, universities, or other educational institutions...
Pilot Program. At his press conference, the President announced the establishment of a pilot program, by executive order, financed by unallocated foreign aid funds and directed by his brother-in-law, R. Sargent Shriver. Simultaneously he sent a special message to Congress, asking for legislation to organize the corps on a permanent basis under the supervision of the State Department. "This corps," he said, "will be a pool of trained men and women sent overseas by the U.S. Government or through private institutions and organizations to help foreign governments meet their urgent needs for skilled manpower...
...official appointment of R. Sargent Shriver as director of the Peace Corps--coinciding as it does with the publication of Shriver's report on the Corps--is a welcome piece of news. The report is especially encouraging, for it combines both restraint and flexibility in its suggestions, qualities badly needed if the enterprise is to be something more than a modern Children's Crusade. Shriver emphasizes the needs of the underdeveloped countries--teachers and technical skills--and he underplays the kind of "soft" Peace Corps proposals that have reminded some critics of the white man's burden all over again...