Word: shriver
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...well justified. Established by Executive Order on March 1, the Corps has developed into an efficient, if not always smooth and neat, organization. At hearings on the Peace Corps Bill conducted by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo.) publicly lauded Director R. Sargent Shriver for his presentation of the Peace Corps' case. It is a good thing he did not take the short tour on the heels of a Public Relations man that some did. The senator would undoubtedly be amazed at how anything coherent could emerge from the chaos, unless he once worked...
...Shriver was questioned on the point by the Senate committee, and he repeated the same argument of open recruitment and foreswearment of proselytizing. The eventual outcome of the controversy will probably be decided by the committee, and if anything is done it will most likely be institution of a stronger ruling in the legislation...
Both the training program and the new overseas project will be announced in Washington today by R. Sargent Shriver, Jr., Director of the Peace Corps...
When, during his 1960 campaign, Presidential Candidate John Kennedy proposed the U.S. Peace Corps, it seemed as if it might become the biggest thing since the draft. But after Kennedy's election and the appointment of his brother-in-law Sargent Shriver, to head the organization, there were only about 20,000 persons interested enough to request the corps' entrance questionnaire. Of those only 8,000 returned the forms, and only 3,694 last month underwent the Peace Corps' first multiple-question examination...
...Sargent Shriver Jr., director, U.S. Peace Corps LL.D...