In the spring of 1964, as he neared graduation from Syracuse University, journalism student Jon C. Halter resolved that his next step would be to get a master's degree in his area of specialization, magazine journalism. At the same time, he was inspired to apply to the then four-year-old Peace Corps for service beginning in the spring of 1966, when his graduate studies would be finished. In late 1965 he received word that his application had been...