Word: shriver
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...household circle, the President remains a family man. A brother, sisters and brothers-in-law have flocked to Washington in convenient concentration, all willing to help the President with his work and eager to help him relax after hours. Bobby is still Kennedy's right-hand man. Sargent Shriver Jr.-Eunice Kennedy's husband-is head of the Peace Corps. Stephen Smith -Jean Kennedy's husband-is special assistant to the head of the White House "Crisis Center." Actor Peter Lawford-Pat Kennedy's husband-helped pay off Democratic debts by co-producing an inaugural extravaganza...
...students at the Boston School of Music are studying the guitar. Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music has more than 100 guitar students ranging in age from ten to 70. Only last week, six Peace Corpsmen, bound for Nigeria, startled their boss R. Sargent Shriver, by unleashing their guitars for an impromptu serenade...
From all parts of the nation, members of the Kennedy clan gathered. Pat Kennedy Lawford flew in from California; Ted Kennedy came by military jet from Boston, bringing with him Dr. William T. Foley, a Manhattan vascular specialist. From Washington came Eunice Kennedy Shriver, on the same plane that brought Secretary of State Dean Rusk to Palm Beach en route to the Bermuda conference. Ted Kennedy. Jean Smith and Ann Gargan spelled one another in a round-the-clock vigil near Room 355. where Joe Kennedy lay. Across the hall, doctors kept their own vigil. On the door...
Missing Link. California's Tomor is one of 484 Peace Corpsmen now on station in underdeveloped nations around the world. Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver, who is President Kennedy's brother-in-law, explains his organization's mission in broad terms: "The process of education in a new society is long and slow. There are important jobs to be filled before that process can produce enough trained people. The missing link in these newly developing nations is often for middle-manpower-men and women to do jobs until local people can be trained to take on this...
While his sister-in-law brought French cuisine to Washington, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy has added the salon. Corralling a coed group of New Frontiersmen (among them: Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver, Deputy Defense Secretary Roswell Gilpatric), Bobby last month set up weekly night-school seminars presided over by Presidential Aide (and ex-Harvard historian) Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and State Department Counselor (and ex-M.I.T. economist) Walt Whitman Rostow. Dubbed "Hickory Hill University" after Bobby's McLean, Va., estate, the seminars involve homework of one book a week, and Rostow, exercising a professor's traditional prerogative...