Word: shriver
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...Sargent Shriver, Director of the Corps, "wants to use both men and women effectively," she reported, noting, "there is some indication that young married couples would do a better job than groups of single men and women." The program will send couples if both husband and wife are individually accepted for the Peace Corps...
...interest in John F. Kennedy's Peace Corps. Some 400 students from 300 colleges and universities couldn't wait. They met last week in Washington's American University for a Peace Corps conference called by the National Student Association and heard Peace Corps Boss Sargent Shriver warn: "This will not be a moonlight cruise on the Amazon or a pleasure vacation in Kashmir.'' Added Wisconsin's Congressman Henry S. Reuss, a sponsor of a youth corps bill: "You can expect freezing cold and burning heat, mud when it rains and dust when it doesn...
...youngsters pressed for specifics, Shriver warned that the Peace Corpsman is not to propagandize in the land where he is sent or get involved in political crosscurrents. He should answer political questions "rationally, as an intelligent adult-but that doesn't mean you should get into fist fights with local Communists or get up on a soapbox." The volunteer who doesn't live as the native lives will be bounced. "The last thing we want is for Johnny to get money from home, buy himself an air-conditioned Cadillac and drive around Cambodia." Corps members will serve...
...Shriver will have plenty of help in answering further questions. The President appointed a 33-member National Advisory Council for the Peace Corps, a galaxy of names reaching from Vice President Lyndon Johnson, chairman, to globe-trotting Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas, honorary chairman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry Belafonte, International Business Machines President Thomas J. Watson Jr., and John D. Rockefeller IV, a Harvard senior. Another 180,000 forms will flood colleges, post offices and youth organizations in the next few weeks. By year's end Shriver expects to have 500 freshly scrubbed new U.S. emissaries overseas...
...Shriver also listed three suggestions that delegates to the Conference might follow up on their campuses: explain what the peace corps is trying to do, create peace corps "units" on campus and orient present studies with a view toward possible peace corps membership...