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When you walk up Warren St. in Roxbury to go to the office of Melvin Miller, change is all around you. You can hardly hear yourself think, because bulldozers are flattening out what used to be a city block. The only think you can smell is crushed cement rubble kicked up by the bulldozers...
...past year, a complex and ambitious program under American AID for South Viet Nam has pumped into that country an average of some $30 million worth of goods a month ranging from cement to penicillin, from sheet steel to automobile tires. This effort is essential to bolster Viet Nam's war-buffeted economy, and, of course, to support the war effort. But as of last week, no one in Saigon or in Washington had any real idea of how much of that matériel had been used for its intended purpose, how much had helped to line profiteers...
...Saigon sources, the Cholon Chinese control more than 50% of South Viet Nam's imports, nearly all of the nation's foreign exchange, and most of the dry-goods and textile factories in the country. They have a sizable hand in other commodities ranging from clocks to cement, steel to soup meat...
...most rewarding work came in October and November when we had a chance to pour concrete. We shoveled sand and gravel and concrete into metal bowls which students carried on their heads and threw into the cement mixer. Others picked up wheelbarrows full of cement, raced down narrow boardways and dumped them into the stone bed of the foundation. It was hard work and the sun was getting hotter, but when the day was over we could see the floor of the building that we had made...
What would the teen-age marrieds advise their own children to do? Said a 19-year-old motorcycle enthusiast who had to sidetrack a law career and go to work in a cement plant when he found his wife-to-be was pregnant: "I don't think it's a good idea for young people to get married; there are too many things to do then. But it's so hard for a teen-ager to say, This is my judgment,' when in your own experience you don't know what you've done...