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Clan Within. When the showdown came, the Kennedy clan was on hand in force. Watching from the Senate gallery were Teddy's wife, Joan, in a pink frock; Sister Eunice Shriver; and Bobby's wife, Ethel. Temporarily presiding over the session was Bobby himself. Taking the floor against the amendment, Dirksen asked: "If Congress can tell the states by statute this afternoon that they cannot impose a poll tax, why not tell them they cannot impose a cigarette tax or any other tax?" Democratic Leader Mansfield worried that the amendment might endanger the entire voting-rights bill...
...Bill Moyers, who has been on leave from the Peace Corps as a White House special assistant. An Arizonan, Wiggins left a distinguished twelve-year career with the U.S.'s foreign aid programs to join the Peace Corps, has been credited by Peace Corps Director R. Sargent Shriver as being "more than any other man" responsible for making the Corps work. Wiggins will supervise the activities of the Peace Corps' 10,683 volunteers and far-flung staff, including his parents, aged 67 and 66, who recently returned from a two-year stint as volunteers in Peru...
Three VISTAS will become part of the cadre at the Catoctin Mountain Job Corps camp that opened at a ceremony presided over by Sargent Shriver, director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, the coordinating body for the overall anti-poverty fight...
...Come Back." Catoctin Mountain is the forerunner of some 100 Job Corps centers that Shriver hopes to have under construction or in operation by June 30. They will be home for 25,000 underprivileged youngsters ranging in age from 16 to 21. So far, 130,000 boys and girls have applied for admission, but even when it is going full tilt, by the end of 1966, the Job Corps' limit will be 100,000 trainees...
...volunteer; after the war and his graduation from college he served for two years in Berlin with the American Friends Service Committee before entering Law School. He left a comfortable Wall Street law practice to join the Peace Corps--first as General Counsel, then as Special Assistant to Sargent Shriver, and now as Secretary General of the International Secretariat for Volunteer Service. Recalling his work as a national director of the American Civil Liberties Union, Delano speaks in broad terms of his "commitment to public service," his "duty" to society, the mission of educated Americans in a world of rising...