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...bustled about asking whether it was a name or a military rank. They had also heard that he was coming to explain a new U.S. assistance program-which they automatically assumed had something to do with money or material goods. It was, therefore, a considerable surprise when R. Sargent Shriver Jr., brother-in-law to President John Kennedy and director of the U.S. Peace Corps, stepped down from his DC-3 in open-necked white shirt and grey woolen slacks. Making an eight-nation tour of Asia and Africa in preparation for actual Peace Corps operations, Sarge Shriver, 45, soon...
...Shriver's Punjab stay began with a massive brunch (fruit salad, porridge, fish, bacon and eggs, chicken and tea) with grey-bearded Chief Minister Sardar Partap Singh Kairon. Although he holds a master of arts degree from the University of Michigan, Kairon plainly had the wrong idea about Peace Corps purposes, promptly began asking for agricultural tools and pneumatic tires for bullock carts. Shriver patiently explained that the aim of the Peace Corps was merely to send able and enthusiastic young Americans abroad to work side by side, wherever needed, with the natives of underdeveloped countries. Kairon advised Shriver...
...Shriver and other have repeated endlessly the principle that Peace Corps members will live on the same level as the local peasant, that he will live in the same kind of housing, that he will try in every way to become a member of the community in which he is working. To a limited extent, of course, this is both necessary and desirable. The Corps member should obviously be flexible and open to new experience. He should realize, however, that a simple-minded attempt to become an African or an Asian peasant by adopting the outward forms of their life...
Harvard's role, big or small, in the national Peace Corps should become clear in the very near future, Dean Monro said yesterday. R. Sargent Shriver, director of the Peace Corps, will leave today on a misison to Nigeria for conferences that should decide the final form of the American effort...
...President of the S.C., Mr. Phillips was quoted in the Washington Evening Star (of March 30) as saying of Sargeant Shriver's speech to the Conference, "Some of the things that man said frightened me." In the same article he called for an "Anti-Communist Freedom Corps...