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...Japanese sandals brought in from Danang. Le My had had no school since 1958; last week, Clement inaugurated a two-room schoolhouse and exchanged greetings with its 100 pupils, who screeched "Big Joe No. 1" as he strode in. A dispensary manned by Marine Corps doctors and Navy corpsmen treats 200 Vietnamese patients a day. The Sea of People. Nor has Clement neglected fun: fortnight ago he wangled a one-night stand from the 3rd Marine Division band, and Le My bounced to the swing of Cole Porter's Can-Can. The affection of the local people has paid...
...black market, Baldwin was sentenced to ten months in a Turkish prison, followed by a 21 year stretch of village life in Kusadasi. Undaunted, he set about learning Turkish and making friends, tackled the port town's problems with the energy of a squad of Peace Corpsmen. Kusadasians dubbed him Kemal, "The Perfect...
Local incidents have aroused storms of protest. Citizens of Columbus, Ind., were understandably upset last month when eight Job Corpsmen were charged with sodomy after an attack on a 17-year-old fellow corpsman. In Oklahoma City, after an investment of almost $100,000, a Neighborhood Youth Corps was dissolved when local officials failed to receive word from Washington assuring them of financing through the summer; only after the project's 300 boys had been laid off did the Oklahoma City directors learn that a telegram giving them the green light had been sent, through bureaucratic bungling...
...Indonesia as well as its five USIS libraries, which had been repeatedly pillaged by Indonesian mobs. Though U.S. Ambassador Howard Jones and his staff are still in Djakarta, even the envoy's residence has been raided. The only other official U.S. presence is a handful of Peace Corpsmen, largely gym instructors. Sukarno has already taken over nominal management-first step toward probable confiscation-of American rubber interests, as well as the Stanvac and Caltex oil companies...
Zippered Joints. The hospital arrived on trucks and trailers-a load of bulky packages, some as big as 7 ft. by 8 ft. by 12 ft., weighing up to three tons. From one, corpsmen took four bundles that looked like oversized parachutes and laid them out neatly, edge to edge, on clear ground, then hooked them to an air hose. Solemnly, the big bags shook out their wrinkles as they were inflated and rose into the familiar, half-round shape of a Quonset hut. The four sections were joined together and the joints zippered airtight. Out of the other packages...