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...Sargent Shriver Jr., director, U.S. Peace Corps LL.D...
While the two Presidents discussed affairs of state, Jackie raced through her favorite city in the firm tow of the grandmotherly Mme. de Gaulle. Trailing behind her black bubbletop Citroen were her mother-in-law, Rose Kennedy, her sister, Princess Radziwill, Sister-in-Law Eunice Shriver, and a bevy of lesser ladies in waiting. At the Jeu de Paume Museum, French Minister for Culture André Malraux whisked her past the collection of impressionist paintings in a breakneck 45 minutes. "I have just seen the most beautiful paintings in the world," gasped Jackie as she returned to the rain-splashed street...
Meanwhile, "urgent discussions" among Monro, Judson T. Shaplin '42, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Education, the Corporation and R. Sargent Shriver, Jr., director of the Peace Corps, still have failed to produce a definite decision to hold Peace Corps training seminars at the University...
Touring the Punjab hinterland, Shriver's first stop was at Daon Paren, a village of some 300 houses and huts. Peering inside such dwelling places, Shriver saw a sick old woman lying in a rag-covered bed, asked where she could get medical aid. He was told that a health center about four miles away was the only place where medicine could be obtained. Inspecting a relatively comfortable hut, Shriver remarked: "This guy is really well off." He was quietly informed that the hut's owner sustained himself and his family by working as a taxi driver...
Driving from village to village through the Punjab countryside, Shriver was struck by the fact that Indian farmers huddle together in villages rather than living in houses on their own land; again, it was explained that tillable land is too precious in India to clutter up with buildings. As he made his rounds of the villages, Peace Corpsman Shriver seemed suspicious that things might have been fancied up in preparation for his arrival; he tested with his forefinger the whitewash on walls to make certain it was not still damp, turned to escorting Indian officials for assurance that there...