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Rockefeller to Advise Peace Corps Project

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A College undergraduate, John D. Rockefeller IV '61, will serve on a 33-member Peace Corps advisory council, which President Kennedy appointed last week.

Vice-President Johnson will serve as chairman of the council, while Mary I. Bunting, President of Radcliffe College, will be one of four vice-chairman.

According to President Kennedy, the members of the council, which also includes Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and calypso singer Harry Belafonte, "will bring to the Peace Corps the insight and experience of prominent individuals who are Interested in the role of the United States in world affairs."

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