The average cost comes to $4.000 for one volunteer in a year. (It costs twice as much to do works of mercy abroadabout $8.000 a year per Peace Corps man). By June. VISTA will have 4.000 volunteers working in pockets of poverty throughout the Nation. among migrants and Indians. in rural and urban slums. in Job Corps centers. and institutions for the mentally retarded. More than 75 percent of the volunteers are under 25. swept up in what sociologists claim is the hallmark of the 1960s. the impulse to do something for someone else. inspired largely by President Kennedy. There is Miriam Kosowitz. 21. of New Haven.
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