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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...
...offered eight degrees and is accepting four. The woman with the most cachet is Rosemary Park, president-elect of Barnard College, who in four successive days last week got four honorary degrees (from the University of Bridgeport, Brown, Columbia and New York University). The Peace Corps' Sargent Shriver and the Alliance for Progress' Teodoro Moscoso are much in demand; each gets three degrees this season. Bruce Catton and Scotty Reston, often honored in recent years, are again in cap and gown...
...Washington performance before President Kennedy and Peace Corps director R. Sargent Shriver will highlight the Hasty Pudding Theatricals' Spring tour...
...Shriver now has 190 more Peace Corpsmen in training, and a vigorous recruiting campaign has brought applications flooding in; a record 4,000 applied to join the Peace Corps in February alone. By August, Shriver expects to have 5,000 volunteers either overseas or in training, and by October 1963 he is counting on having 10,000 Peace Corpsmen...
...Roney Plaza's general manager, Jack Mitchell: "The nearest toilets are halfway down the promenade, so we've equipped each cabana with other arrangements. We're calling it 'The Cot 'n Pot Club.'" The Fontainebleau was embarrassedly forced to house Peace Corpsman Sargent Shriver in a cabana beside the huge pool. Other Fontainebleau guests were roughing it aboard a fleet of yachts and houseboats tethered in nearby Indian Creek...