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...person, however, could have his name removed from the lottery by informing the government that he intended to go into some other form of national service such as the Peace Corps or Vista...
...have a major psychological hang-up," he said. For this reason, he said, there should be "a whole gamut of responses possible" for the potential draftee. He suggested that young men could "share the burden of the war, but not its purposes" by joining the Peace Corps or Vista "until there is a better war to fight," or by volunteering their services to a U.N. standing army...
MARY POPPINS EN FRANCAIS (Vista). The Sherman brothers' songs "have made the rounds of the pop singers and the jazz bands and now turn up, very much at home, translated into French. Christiane LeGrand, the French soprano soloist of the Swingle Singers, tries to keep it sweet and simple but breaks into a bit of high-spirited scat singing in Un P'tit Morceau de Sucre and sounds, as they say in Paris, supercalifragilisticexpidelilicieux...
Innate Altruism. Like any other five-year-old, the Peace Corps is experiencing growing pains. It suffers from sibling rivalry with VISTA, the domestic poverty corps directed by Shriver. Despite intensive recruiting on 1,500 U.S. campuses, an advertising campaign mounted at cost (and sometimes too cutely) by a major agency, a whopping 42,068 applicants-not to mention the added inducement of a two-year deferment for draft-age men-the Corps in 1965 fell nearly 1,000 short of its 9,500-volunteer goal. One reason is that today's college student tends increasingly to postpone...
This was not the first time that PBH has served the OEO in an advisory capacity. It was invited in 1962 to help formulate plans for VISTA, the domestic Peace Corps...