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New Frontier: The Peace Corps
Elms, Alan C. | December 3, 1960 issue

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The problem, how to lift the poor nations of the earth into the lower middle class qualifies as the world's biggest On November 11, slightly over a hundred people marched into the economy-sized temple of Princeton University's Whig Hall, figuring they might begin to answer the problem. Direction was mostly in the hands of Dr. Thomas Melady, a professional consultant on African affairs. Conference was based on Politician Hubert Humphrey's proposal for the immediate establishment of a U.S. Peace Corps to develop a genuine people-to-people program in which talented and dedicated young American men will educate people in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

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CONGRESSES & conventions; ECONOMIC development; PEACE Corps (U.S.); DEVELOPING countries; UNITED States; ASIA; AFRICA
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