Word: shrivers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Actor Peter Lawford is virtually the only male relative of the Kennedy family who still has no Government job. In addition to Brother Bobby as Attorney General and Brother-in-Law Sarge Shriver as director of the Peace Corps, Brother-in-Law Steve Smith was discovered working quietly as an unpaid consultant for the Development Loan Fund. In faraway Seattle, Herbert Legg, Washington State Democratic chairman, was prompted to remark: "The Kennedys have what one might call an English awareness of friends and relatives, because they know their friends and relatives are qualified-else they wouldn't be friends...
...White House summary of the report that R. Sargent Shriver, Jr., the director of the national Peace Corps, submitted to President Kennedy, said that the Federal program would operate in part "through arrangements with colleges, universities, or other educational institutions...
...Shriver's report said that the Peace Corps training should be integrated "so far as possible" into college curricula, and that final orientation programs should also be established, "using college and university facilities whenever possible...
Initially, the Peace Corps program will be restricted to sanitation and agricultural projects and the teaching of English as a secondary language. Ultimately, Shriver and Kennedy envisage a corps of several thousand skilled Americans working on such diverse projects as vocational guidance taught by Swahili-speaking American instructors in Tanganyika and the eradication of malaria led by bright young American doctors on the ''fever coast" of Central America...
With more than 100,000 applications anticipated in the first six months, Shriver & Co. expect no difficulty in finding the talent they seek. Although there will be no age restrictions, the accent will be on youth, since young men and women between 21 and 30 have more time and fewer responsibilities than older applicants. Men eligible for military draft will be deferred until Peace Corps service is completed, but the Peace Corps will not be a substitute for the draft...