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...pleased Congress more than the Peace Corps' stubborn refusal to spend every last cent of its budget. Honoring the idealism of 11,902 volunteer workers in 52 countries, it has shunned frills and pared costs, saving taxpayers roughly $45 million over four years. Peace Corps Director Jack Hood Vaughn, 47, a feisty, compact (5 ft. 8 in.) redhead, was commended by Vice President Humphrey for slashing $495 off the upkeep of each corpsman last year...
...this year Vaughn asked for more money. Amid a rush of requests for Peace Corps volunteers from all over the non-Communist world, he submitted a 1968 budget of $118.7 million, up from last year's $110 million, to put 17,750 workers and trainees into 58 countries by next September. "It costs less money to make peace than war," Vaughn reminded the House Foreign Affairs Committee. "But it still costs a lot." Last week the message got through. While the House panel followed the Senate in trimming 3% from his requested budget, in a period of all-round...
...junk for lack of care. Language training for the corpsmen was once squeezed into 50 hours, and one slum worker in a Chilean callampa did not have enough Spanish to ask how to get to the bus that would take him to work. "At times they miss the mark," Vaughn confesses. "And when they do, it's certain we helped them miss...
U.N.C.L.E.-man Robert Vaughn is the national chairman of Dissenting Democrats, and Amherst professor Henry Steele Commager is the chairman for the State. Casady's official title is Administrative Director which, he says, "means I'm doing all the work...
...Vaughn started the organization June 23 in Los Angeles and gathered 8000 signatures in three weeks. He asked Casady to organize a branch here--one of about 20 around the country...