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...President's order authorized the Corps to draw on funds available under the Mutual Security Act of 1954, and set it up as a semi-autonomous body in the Department of State. After an initial rush of excited inquiries and applications, both the mail and the publicity have settled down to something approaching normal, whatever that is. The decline in the news-making power of the Peace Corps, however, did not signify a decline in either enthusiasm or production...
...have gotten all we could possibly get from Joe Louis and still leave him with some hope that he can live," declared an Internal Revenue official last year. But last week the once peerless puncher, currently shuffling through a semi-soft-shoe act in a Detroit cabaret revue, was conscientiously dickering to kick back half his salary (reportedly $1,000 a week) as part payment on his 1946-52 tax arrears of more than $1,250,000. "I owe it. It was my fault," insisted the Brown Bomber. "And with all this Berlin stuff and getting...
Under the direction of Marston Balch, the current performances by students and semi-professional players convey more than a minimal amount of the wondrous blend of humor and pathos in the script. And there are some fine moments in John McLean's Laudisi, Carroll Cole's mad (?) young man, and Barbara Joseph's mad (?) mother...
...proved courteously cooperative-but busy. The very fact that made General Taylor cover-worthy this week-his role in the vital decision-making on Berlin-also made him inaccessible to interviewing for long stretches of time. Rinehart's final interview with Taylor was conducted at a brisk semi-dogtrot through Arlington National Cemetery. The general likes to start his day at Fort Myer, Va., with a mile and a quarter of "walking." Rinehart tagged along, trying to scribble a note or two on the run. "As we burst out of the cemetery," reported Rinehart, "the general's waiting...
...Coombs started by withdrawing a new $9,600,000 budget request for the center, then got the regents to call in some able pulse takers, including Presidents Clark Kerr of the University of California and John Gardner of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Their advice: make the center semi-autonomous and give it a chancellor ranking with President Snyder; concentrate on technical graduate studies in the university's strong fields; and make sure that one-third of the students (2,000 by 1965) are mature Americans. Said Secretary Coombs, with a dig at Friendship University: "This should...