Word: shriver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bill Moyers, who has been on leave from the Peace Corps as a White House special assistant. An Arizonan, Wiggins left a distinguished twelve-year career with the U.S.'s foreign aid programs to join the Peace Corps, has been credited by Peace Corps Director R. Sargent Shriver as being "more than any other man" responsible for making the Corps work. Wiggins will supervise the activities of the Peace Corps' 10,683 volunteers and far-flung staff, including his parents, aged 67 and 66, who recently returned from a two-year stint as volunteers in Peru...
Three VISTAS will become part of the cadre at the Catoctin Mountain Job Corps camp that opened at a ceremony presided over by Sargent Shriver, director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, the coordinating body for the overall anti-poverty fight...
...Come Back." Catoctin Mountain is the forerunner of some 100 Job Corps centers that Shriver hopes to have under construction or in operation by June 30. They will be home for 25,000 underprivileged youngsters ranging in age from 16 to 21. So far, 130,000 boys and girls have applied for admission, but even when it is going full tilt, by the end of 1966, the Job Corps' limit will be 100,000 trainees...
...volunteer; after the war and his graduation from college he served for two years in Berlin with the American Friends Service Committee before entering Law School. He left a comfortable Wall Street law practice to join the Peace Corps--first as General Counsel, then as Special Assistant to Sargent Shriver, and now as Secretary General of the International Secretariat for Volunteer Service. Recalling his work as a national director of the American Civil Liberties Union, Delano speaks in broad terms of his "commitment to public service," his "duty" to society, the mission of educated Americans in a world of rising...
...paid $50 a month, to be banked until they leave the corps, plus $30 a month pocket money, along with room, board, clothing and medical care. They will attend classes in subjects ranging from bulldozer driving to personal grooming-all aimed at making them potentially useful citizens. Says Shriver: "The head of one of the biggest oil companies in the U.S. told me that in the state of New Jersey alone they could employ 8,000 gasoline station attendants tomorrow morning if they could get them. And in Chicago, the Yellow Cab Co. had a 60% turnover per annum...