Word: shriver
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...choose his successor, and the choice is an important one: A.I.D. has reformed and refined its operations, but it lacks a central mind to determine the criteria of eligibility for aid and to persuade the Congress of the value of experiment. There is some thought of appointing Mr. Sargent Shriver, a splendid Peace Corps Director whose designation by the President might be all that is needed to discredit the entire Kennedy family. Only one man seems to have all the necessary virtues: Mr. Eugene Black, who just retired from the World Bank. Mr. Black can do more than...
...MARK RUSSELL AS SARGENT SHRIVER TALKING TO PEACE CORPS RECRUITS: It's my job to inform you about the difficulties and hardships you'll meet. Often you'll be on the receiving end of many personal insults and much suffering, possibly in the form of untamed violence, rock throwing, spitting and physical attack. Then, when you leave Washington...
...when I snapped the picture that he might well have a Republican on his right as well as his left." ··· Stoically stowing away an on-the-run diet of rice trimmed with goat intestines, chicken heads and "thousand-day-old" eggs, Peace Corps Director R. Sargent Shriver, 46, roughed his way by helicopter and Jeep through a 25-day, 10,000-mile tour of the Philippines, Thailand, Malaya, Sarawak and North Borneo to see how his troops were faring. He found them hard at work-so hard that at one Filipino hamlet he got a message from...
ROBERT SARGENT SHRIVER...
This week, as Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver sent a massive report to the President on the first year of field operations, echoes of such praise are heard round the world. Even anti-Western Ghana has asked for more Peace Corpsmen. At home, the Corps has won approval from the initially skeptical U.S. Congress, which has agreed to double the first-year budget of $30 million. More than 1,000 members (one-third of them women) are now at work in 15 countries, and by the end of next month, 3,100 others will be in training for jobs...