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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...
...White House to see what was delaying his wife, and finally the family departed. At Andrews Air Force Base, the Kennedys transferred to an Air Force jet, shared it during the 50-minute ride to Hyannisport with 17 relatives and guests, including Robert Kennedy, Brother-in-Law Sargent Shriver and Under Secretary of the Navy Paul Fay Jr. and their families...
Encouraging Signs. In Washington. Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver took the incident more or less philosophically. The language of the student protests, said Shriver, was "familiar rhetoric. It is not surprising that certain groups are working by mind and mimeograph to destroy the Peace Corps." As for Margery Michelmore, who at week's end was in Puerto Rico to discuss her Peace Corps future with U.S. officials, Shriver said that "she has not resigned, and we hope...
...Cape Cod (the 13th in a row), he signed 22 bills into law, including the one that gave permanent authorization to the Peace Corps. Recalling the doubts drummed up about the program in Congress, the President expressed his esteem for the political salesmanship of Brother-in-Law Sarge Shriver Jr., director of the Corps, only half-jokingly dubbed him "the most effective lobbyist on the Washington scene...
...such a climate, the first Peace Corpsmen are very much on trial. "You will make or break the Peace Corps," Sarge Shriver told the pioneers in a final briefing. "The payoff will come out there where you're working. You'll be watched like no Americans abroad have ever been watched before in history. In some places Peace Corpsmen will be the first Americans who have arrived without guns on their shoulders. The President is counting on you. It's up to you to prove that the concepts and ideals of the American Revolution are still alive...